< Design
About GlitterGallery
GlitterGallery will be an amazing way to collaborate on design!
The goals are to allow designers to easily share their work, gather and parse feedback in a useful way, and version their work just as developers are able to.
GlitterGallery will be somewhat biased to support SVGs from Inkscape, and to work with the magicmockup rapid prototyping program. That doesn't mean it won't work with other filetypes, though!
History/Background
People
Featureset
Desired Enhancements
An awesome commenting system
Possibly the most important component of GlitterGallery is the way it helps understand feedback. It would useful to be able to support a commenting system that both provides socialization to some extent, while providing a way to distinguish useful feedback from the rest.
Things to work on in this direction:
- Likes/+1s/Upvotes for the comments. We need this to be implemented in a way that the entire page doesn't need a refresh.
- Threaded replies - let people reply to replies and so on.
- Mardown editor: currently, the comments support markdown, it will be really useful to provide with buttons to press for people who aren't used to writing in markdown. This feature can also be carried over to Glitterposts.
- Mark as issue: this is a very important area to improve on. It would be useful for the author of the project to be able to mark a particular comment as an issue - this could be transferred into the tracker for someone to work on.
- Overall UI - make the comment boxes expand as the user enters the comment, etc. Enable easy identification of project owner through tags or differently colored comment boxes.
An issue tracker that works in sync with the commenting system
Things to work on in this direction:
- Sync comments to issues. When a user reports a comment as an issue, maybe it's a good idea to ask the user for some more information about the comment before checking it in as an issue, or maybe it isn't. Think what would be better in terms of UX.
- Allow project owners to let people take up issues.
- Allow refences on commits/pull requests, just like GitHub does.
- Integrate this with the user's email and in future, the GG notification system.