Iterating our design workflow keywords in trac

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In the design weekly meeting a few weeks ago, discussion happened about how to align keywords in tracTrac Trac is the place where contributors create issues for bugs or feature requests much like GitHub.https://core.trac.wordpress.org/. (coreCore Core is the set of software required to run WordPress. The Core Development Team builds WordPress. and metaMeta Meta is a term that refers to the inside workings of a group. For us, this is the team that works on internal WordPress sites like WordCamp Central and Make WordPress.) and labels from GutenbergGutenberg The Gutenberg project is the new Editor Interface for WordPress. The editor improves the process and experience of creating new content, making writing rich content much simpler. It uses ‘blocks’ to add richness rather than shortcodes, custom HTML etc. https://wordpress.org/gutenberg/ GitHubGitHub GitHub is a website that offers online implementation of git repositories that can easily be shared, copied and modified by other developers. Public repositories are free to host, private repositories require a paid subscription. GitHub introduced the concept of the ‘pull request’ where code changes done in branches by contributors can be reviewed and discussed before being merged be the repository owner. https://github.com/ for design.

Why make changes?

Currently there are a wide range of keywords across meta and core trac for design, along with a lack of consistency. This also sees ui and ux feedback split, which often sees a confusion over what to use when.

The goal of this is to unify the workflow and making it easier for designers to follow and contribute. As triage is a focus for 2019, this also should make it easier for anyone work ing on that.

Suggested changes

The proposal being put forward is to distill down to 2 keywords across both tracs and this aligns with current GitHub use:

‘Needs design feedback’: ‘ux-feedback’ and ‘ui-feedback’ will now merge into this one keyword.
‘Needs design’: this will be specific to require a design.

What do you think? Please leave a comment to discuss this change.

Joy 7:56 pm on December 17, 2018

They sound like the same thing to me.
Mel Choyce 8:59 pm on December 17, 2018

This makes sense to me, but I’d love to hear more from +make.wordpress.org/core on if this change makes sense to developers triaging tracTrac Trac is the place where contributors create issues for bugs or feature requests much like GitHub.https://core.trac.wordpress.org/. as well.
- Jb Audras 9:20 pm on December 17, 2018
  
  Sounds nice to me 👍
- Joe McGill 9:25 pm on December 17, 2018
  These changes make sense to me and my interpretation would be:
  - Needs design feedback: A designer should review and give feedback on the proposed change.
  - Needs design: A designer should create a prototype of how this should look/behave before writing code.
  - Sergey Biryukov 12:34 am on December 18, 2018
    
    Makes sense to me as well 🙂
  - Jonathan Desrosiers 5:56 pm on December 19, 2018
    
    I agree with @joemcgill. These sound great to me, and I share his interpretations. I often struggle knowing whether to assign UIUI UI is an acronym for User Interface - the layout of the page the user interacts with. Think ‘how are they doing that’ and less about what they are doing. vs. UXUX UX is an acronym for User Experience - the way the user uses the UI. Think ‘what they are doing’ and less about how they do it., so I think combining the two would be very helpful.
    
    Worth noting, the handbook has a Trac Workflow Keywords page that is missing the `needs-design` keyword, and `ui-feedback`, `ux-feedback` are described in the same line. We should make sure this gets updated when these changes are rolled out.
    
    Thinking about the new Triage Team, I would love to have at least one designer on that team. Having more uniform keywords will help tickets get proper attention when evaluating whether to close or explore a ticket further.