Engage 0.3 beta Development Phases

Jan. 15 - Feb. 5

Open Coding

Prepare XML data, start podcasts, translate into French, setup WiFi

Feb. 8-12

Bug Parade

Finish translation and podcasts, setup iPod Touch devices

Feb. 15-19

QA Testing

Test deploy of Engage on McCord servers, help with QA, final deployment

Improve Data Imports

Deal with HTML tags included in XML (e.g. from McCord)

3

Finish Exhibition Main, About, and Catalogue

Code review and refinements to Exhibition components

2

Update Exhibit View to match Main and About wireframes

2

Update Catalog to match wireframes

3

Improve data access framework

Refactor data access layer, removing redundancy across services (timeboxed)

2

Add a Navigation Bar

Implement Navigation Bar functionality for a variety of components

1

Add Bilingual Support

Implement the language preferences screen using cookie support

0.5

Localization: ensure all components load strings in the correct language

4

Translate our strings to French (McCord)

0.75

Ensure all data feeds accept a language parameter and that results are returned correctly

0.5

Create Couch views to retrieve documents in one language or the other

0.5

Import a good, fresh snapshot of all the McCord data for the pilot and verify with Hugues

0.75

Improve Navigation

Refactor as a "Thumbnail + Title + Description List" component (if necessary)

Generalize Browse and Navigation List structure to use it in Exhibitions, Catalogue, and Browse by theme

Add Object Code Entry Screen

Implement Object Code component

2

Create Couch view for searching by code

0.25

Improve Artifact View

Update Artifact View to latest wireframes

2.5

Remove Tags from Artifact View (ditch it completely from svn)

0.25

Code review, refine, commit Sveto's changes to artifact that allows users to collect an item.

1

Finish My Collection

Review Sveto's My Collection and plan next steps

2

Implement my collection email

1

Remove reordering from mobile version of My Collection

0.25

Simple login task that allows users to specify their email address for sending MyCollections

1

Make NavList restylable as a grid

1

Mock up Comments and Guestbook

Implement comments list view

0.5

Implement comments entry screen

0.5

Integrate comments with Exhibit Main and Artifact View

0.5

Tying it all together

Implement a home page with links to Exhibitions, My Collection, Object Code, Language Preferences, and Login

1

Work with Hugues to prepare for deploying and setting up the pilot

2