CLI and framework

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This is a place to discuss the direction of the CLI and framework

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User personas

User community

• constraints:
  • programmers, or people comfortable with the command-line
• who do we most need?
  • right now, the main user is us as we develop the GUI
  • it's quite possible others will prefer the command-line, but they are not our main target user
  • ultimately we want to serve scientists who make talks, regardless of whether they are coders
  • ...so, really the only user for the CLI/framework is us

Having realised this, it makes sense to focus on users of the GUI so we can build the backend to support it. Moving to develop personas in #2

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from #2, some persona-based specifications for the GUI/webapp

• gui should have an interactive walk-through guide
• it must be easy and intuitive to:
  • create slides
  • modify existing slides
  • assemble them into decks
  • find shared slides and collections
  • organise slides and collections
  • import slides from existing decks in standard formats
• users who share things should get detailed feedback about the use of their shared stuff
  • how many people looked (views)
  • how many people added them to collections (collections)
  • how many talks were given that contained her slides (presented)
  • how many people made derivative slides from hers (remixed)
• similarly, these measures should be visible to people browsing or finding slides or collections, so they can for example pick out the most popular slides matching their search query

From this, we can work back to see which tasks are backend-specific, and from there spec out the API.

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Backend-specific tasks from the above:

• create a new slide from scratch
• modify an existing slide
• create a remix of an existing slide
• search across one or more collections (metadata and full text)
• organise slides and collections - e.g. with tags
• track the heritage of a slide - i.e. it was a modification of y which was a modification of z.
  • perhaps needs a unique slide ID - hash of metadata + content?
• track the license information on a slide
• track slide statistics
  • how many talks/collections is it in?
  • how many descendants?
• import slides from other formats
  • ppt
  • open doc presentation
  • keynote
  • pdf
  • web/JS frameworks

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Tasks above have been converted to issues. https://github.com/slidewinder/slidewinder/milestones/Mozilla%20Science%20Lab%20sprint%20%231