Retrospective - Product Mix FTL

Dec 22, 2010

Retrospective - Product Mix FTL

22 December 2010

Attendees
Jeff, Van, Jakub

What Happened?

original requirement to GSOC students:
- Make new page like that looks and works like the old page
Service facades set up by senior dev to hook up to the new page
weeks later, QA and PM gave feedback on implementation
No senior person with deeper experience with blueprint and CSS to provide guidance and structure to students
every FTL page was different
- borders, backgrounds - didn't have clear acceptance criteria

What worked well?

Michal was able to get consistent UI on many pages
- now Admin pages are using templates

What do we want to improve?

faster feedback on implementation
better acceptance criteria
- navigation, resizing,
- be clear that UI has to be exactly like old page
- what browser(s) are supported for release (support IE)
- what languages to support. e.g. french labels wider, so page layout different (should develop or test with icelandic locale)
Be explicit about basics like using templates when using GSOC students
there are duplicates of several CSS pages.

What do we want to experiment with or change?

Story not closed until tested, reviewed by PM
Look at UI with English and Icelandic languages
Have more senior person lay out this larger projects before students get involved.
Limit browser support?
clean up legacy main CSS
Don't use tables in ftl, use blueprint instead - may result in subtle UI changes