ParticipationSystems/discourse evolution

This page contains all of the important details for the Discourse Evolution project.

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Project Information

Summary

Involving core contributors across the full lifecycle of projects around Mozilla remains a challenge. Part of this challenge is the lack of an accessible and secure place for staff and volunteers to discuss sensitive information. So we're building access control and permissions functionality into Discourse!

Additionally, we're establishing a development roadmap to improve the functionality and UX of Discourse so it meets the collaborative needs of mozillians.

This project is part of the larger Participation Systems initiative.

For details, see our project brief (draft in progress).

Goals

Phase 1 ✅ Complete

Project conception

Alignment of resources

Putting the pedal to the metal

Phase 2

Interview stakeholders to gain an understanding of how Discourse is used across Mozilla

• Identify pain points
• Identify opportunities for improving the platform
• Document the current status of its administration and infrastructure.
• Find and compile existing metrics being collected

Define functional requirements for access control and permissioning features Build a product roadmap for future development

• Prioritize features
• Identify preliminary requirements
• Define resources necessary to begin work on roadmap

Phase 3

Begin development work

• Build access control and permissions management functionality within Discourse that integrates with the Mozillians Groups API.

Get Involved

This is a great project to get get involved with if blurby blurb

Here's how:

• Specific action
• Specific action
• Join us on our communications channel(s)
  • Discourse
  • #ParSoL

Project Management

Key People (RASCI)

Responsible	Accountable	Support	Consulted	Informed
Lyre Calliope Hermina Condei	George Roter	Leo McArdle (Who else?)	Ruben Martin Pierros Papadeas David Ascher Simon Wex	Name name name

Smartsheet (link + What is this and how to use it)

Notes & Meetings Hub