mezis/appfab

Participative product management app for teams

appfab's Issues

Configurable mininum # of vettings/votes

Accessible through account editor.

AJAX idea sorting and filtering

The sorting/filtering banner will need to be reloaded as well.

Move ideas between accounts

Needs a big red warning in the UX.

• Drop all vettings and votes
• Reset to "submitted" state
• Re-attribute comments for users who are not members of the target account.

Make sure no other association will break.

Limit ideas displayed in each column (board view)

Show "N hidden ideas" at bottom of column when 10+ ideas.

Users can still order/filter or switch to list view.

Add idea pagination to card view

The list is getting long.

Make it pseudo pagination only (next N / previous N), not pages, as we want to encourage only reading from the top of the stack.

AJAXify notifications listing

State changes and filter should not reload the whole page.

Make some state machine steps optional

This is intended for "tighter" workflows.
Option in the account editor.

"voted", "designed", "approved", "signed off" states can be made optional.

Add authorisation in controllers where missing

This involves checking that there are specs for the following, and if not add them (and make them pass!)

• only author can edit/delete an epic
• only author can add/delete attachments
• only author can delete comment
• author cannot upvote/downvote their comment
• idea action by roles
• headers only visible when role makes them relevant
• only account owner can change roles

Graveyard and archived idea states

"graveyard" state for submitted ideas we no longer want, and an "archived" state for the live stories when it gets too big.

Add an extra button in the idea's action panel. This should be available to the idea author and all PMs (until "voted" inclusive), the idea's PM (from "picked" onwards), and account owners (all states).

Push new/updated comments to readers.

Use Pusher service.

Full text search

Idea titles should have more "weight".

Investigate use of fuzzily or use an external service.

Re-Introduce capacity checking

PMs should not be able to pick projects up if they'd exceed their team's capacity.

This had to be removed as it was too constraining.

Re-introduce as advisory (confirmation pop up possibly).

Rewrite traits to ActiveSupport concerns

cannot see idea from other group

When you try to see an idea from another group (even if you are member of it) you are presented with a blank page.
I would like to have a look into, but if you think you can fix it very quick, then please do 👍

Dissociate sizing and vetting

Users should be able to vet ideas even if they're not fully sized yet.
Currtenly the friction is too high at the vetting stage.

Add confirmation to attachment/comment deletion

Marc-Antoine says:

AppFab feedback: Dawid and I did same blunder, we deleted the attachment while trying to open them

Backend: Keep idea history

Add an IdeaEvent model that tracks comments, state changes, etc.

This would lateer be leveraged to display a comlete timeline rather than just a list of comments.

Star idea ratings

The numeric star ratings are ugly and not very readable.

Instead of a star with a figure, use zero to 4 stars, for the lower 20% of rated ideas to the top 20% rated.

As a nice side effect this will make it easier for product managers to sell that they're not picking from the top of the queue, just from the "top rated" ideas.

Show permanent banner when missing avatar

This is to incite people to go to gravatar.com.
Avatars are an important cue on ideas.

"Return to" when logging in

Style upvoted comments

Only downvoted comments are styled at present.

Keep deleted ideas

No date should be deleted !

Destroyed ideas should be marked as "deleted" instead, which would be an extra state.
If simple do the same for comments.

Warning banner when roles missing in account

Warning when account lacks owner, pm, arch, dictator

Push notifications as banners to users

Use the Pusher service. Don't forget to setup their beta HTTP API.

NB code for this is started in the "pusher" branch.

Auto-follow ideas by category.

Let users "subscribe" to categories, and have them auto-follow all new ideas in said categorie(s).

Particularly useful for PMs.

Links to open Skype chat with user

UX: open skype chat with user (skype:<login>?chat)

Add a one-time banner to ask user for their Skype handle if missing

Use Unicorn in production

It's quite easy to squeeze a bit more parallelism out of Heroku's dynos.

Use Unicorn with 2 threads per dyno and don't forget to handle DB reconnection.

Poke user about story

Good UX will be tricky for this one!

Aim is to trigger a notification.
Limit to 1 poke per day (week?) per user pair.

Option to disable tooltips

In user profile

Fix product manager user name layout

[ Product Manager: Name | Karma Points | Karma icon ] needs to be on one line otherwise it breaks the design

Monthly "trophies"

Every month, prep a page + email to "congratulate" some select users based on their activity (or lack thereof!)

Intent is to add some fun and have a friendly way to entice user to use the app more.

badges : most active (flash), least active (ghost), most upvoted/best commenter (porm queen), most popular (politician - stories voted), biggest submitter (einstein), biggest fail (least accepted stories), attachment freak, longest comment, karma hoarder, most comments (chatterbox)…

Some design work required.

AJAX story actions

Reload header, idea block, and actions block separately.

HTML escaped in title (entities)

Simplify Idea storage

Group the 3 idea body fields into 1 column (using active store).

Might even be better to store idea text in a separate table.

Hash links to other ideas

It would be nice to be able to quickly link to another story. For example, I am writing EPIC two and I will like to point readers to the phase one EPIC

For instance #45 in a comment / idea body would get turned into a link to idea 45.

Better user tooltip positioning

Rollover on mini user photo: it is just centred on the photo, whatever its width. Sometimes, the left part is outside of the screen and therefore not readable. "No big deal"

Let users opt out of daily digest

Add foreigner + immigrant support for backend security

Introduce Dashboard to simplify "Angles"

Angles (the views on ideas in the top bar) are confusing to users; they expect them to reflect states while I excepted them to reflect "outstanding actions to be taken".

They're quite redundant with the Kanban view, too.

• add a filter dropdown to show only a given idea state (this would also switch to the cards view if on the board view).
• remove all angles but "all ideas" and "followed"
• add a "dashboard" toplevel item and assorted Dashboard view
• post-login landing page is the Dashboard

The dashboard is to show "oustanding actions" based on your role:

• Ideas to size (5 most recently active / MRA) if PM or Architect
• Ideas to vet (5 MRA) if PM or Architect
• The above replaced with 5 MRA ideas if other role
• 5 random votable ideas
• 5 most recently sumbitted
• "current projects" working set if PM (ideas from picked to signed off)
• Ideas to approve or sign off if BD
• 5 most recent notifications
• 5 most recent comments on followed ideas
• "show all" link on each block

Mark notifications as read when following link

when clicking any link in a notification, mark it as read

bonus points if all (other) notifications related to an idea get marked as read too when I land on the idea page and spend over 5s reading it.

Auto-fix all user-input URLs into (site) links

map https://appfab-production.herokuapp.com/(.*) to \1.

Limit maximum height of idea cards to prevent idea spam

Idea timeline

Include state changes etc. in the list of comments.

This relies on #5 to be solved first.

Invite users

UX to go to the team view.
Enter user email, will only work if they've already logged in once.

Production domain setup (appfab.io)

Only constraint there is setting up the certificate in production.

Fix bin rollover

Rubbish bin rollover is slightly broken on the list view.

Click anywhere in idea

On the list view, users should be able to open an idea by clicking on the header (not only the title).
Similarly, on the Kanban view, users should be able to open an idea by clicking anywhere on the box.

Careful with design — perhaps have the idea pop/scale up slightly when hovering, remove the "arrow" link and link underline.

Fallback to Google Plus for Avatars

Nag banner to get PMs/Architects to review or vet low-interest ideas.

Only nag if

• they're not the author
• they haven't commented on the idea before

Pick a random idea.

Cannot attach `.jpeg`

Add extension to the list.

As part of this, add MIME and size checking server side.