Support/SUMOMigrationOrder

Functionality can be classed into a set of dependency groups. Note that some functionality will need to be done over several milestones, e.g. search.

Functional groups

Group 1: independent low risk

• Search UI
• Basic forums: Contributor, off topic, wiki articles ("discuss")
• Event signup system

Group 2: infrastructure

• Admin console: Initial setup, then admin for each component will be added when the component is added.
  • User management
  • Basic forum management
  • Support forum management
  • Search
  • Template management
  • Breadcrumbs
  • Categories
  • Feedback management
  • l10n control (create new locales, appoint locale leaders, manage translations
  • Tag management
• Users table: Needs to be kept in sync with users_users for the time being, until we are completely out of tiki
• Feedback system (formerly CSAT)
• API
• Tagging

Group 3: Forum related

• Support forum
• Sphinx indexer for support forum

Group 4: Wiki related

• Wiki
• Sphinx indexer for wiki
• Wiki l10n
• API for wiki content

Group 5: Dashboards and reporting

• Contributor dashboard
• Locale leader dashboard
• Metrics

Group 6: l10n

• gettext setup
• Locale leader dashboard
• l10n workflow

Milestones

Milestone 1: Search and feedback

We will start with migrating some independent low risk items and the associated infrastructure.

Our initial plan is to prototype these items in Django.

• Search UI: none of the back end or indexing work.
• Feedback system: We can rewrite this, put the data in new tables, and host the content in an iframe on wiki pages. Support/FeedbackSystem2PRD
• Neither of these items requires migration of users table, will require some migration of templates, and understanding of Tiki sessions

Timeline

• 5 weeks of development including associated tests
• Mid term review at 3 weeks to see if we are on track, what else we need, review scope, etc
• 2 weeks QA
• Started week of Feb 8
• Review week of March 1

Interlude

• Review plans and timeline based on what we learned in Milestone 1

Milestone 2: Users and admin

• Users table, sessions, and user sync between old and new code
• Basic admin console: search, users, new template management

Timeline

• 3 weeks of development (start March 15?)
• 2 weeks QA

Milestone 3: gettext

Set up gettext for UI items in new parts of interface.

• gettext setup
• verbatim integration

Timeline

• 3-4 weeks development (start April 8?)
• 2 weeks QA

Milestone 4: support forums

PRD

Support forums are the main goal of this milestone. Again, we will move over associated infrastructure

• Support forums
• Feedback system for support forums
• Admin for support forums
• Sphinx indexer for support forums

Timeline

• 6 weeks of development with QA cycles as we go
• 2 weeks of QA

Milestone 5: Wiki Part 1

This milestone will focus on getting some infrastructure in place.

• Wiki schema
• Sync existing articles into new schema
• Display articles with new code; edit with old?
• Admin for wiki
• Sphinx indexer for wiki

Timeline

• 6-8 weeks of development
• 3 weeks QA

Milestone 6: Wiki part 2

Focus on wiki and l10n workflow

• New workflow for contribs and localizers
• Locale leader dashboard
• Contributor dashboard

Timeline

• 5 weeks of development
• 2 weeks QA

Future Milestones

• Any remaining functionality
• New features