Hyperkitty: Updating Mailman's UI
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This presentation discusses Hyperkitty, a web user interface for Mailman mailing list archives. It provides a brief history of Mailman and outlines some surface-level and deeper UX issues with the existing interface. Hyperkitty was developed to address these issues. The presentation traces Hyperkitty's development from an initial blog post in 2010 to ongoing improvements through student projects and contributions from Red Hat developers. It demos Hyperkitty's current features and invites audience participation through questions.
Hyperkitty: Updating Mailman's UI
- 1. UPDATING MAILMAN'S UI HYPERKITTY PRESENTED BY Principal Interaction Designer, Red Hat, Inc. Máirín Duffy This presentation is under a Creative Commons Attribution ShareAlike 3.0 License. Please enjoy and share.
- 2. Who am I? QUICK STATS: Occupation Last used OS X, Windows, or any Adobe stuf Desktop Environment Principal Interaction Designer @ Red Hat Early 2006 Operating System Fedora 20 GNOME 3 Fedora Design Team Lead How the heck do you pronounce your name? Just call me “Mo.” :)
- 3. What am I talking about? (and why should you care?) ● Are you subscribed to any mailing lists? ● Do you want to interact with a project that uses mailing lists? ● Are you drowning in email? ● Do you hate flamewars and trolls?
- 4. GNU Mailman Started in 1997/1998 History (selective) Mailman 1.0 released July 30, 1999 Mailman 2.0 released November 22, 2000 Mailman 3.0 Alpha 1 released March 26, 2009 Mailman 3.0 Beta 1 / Postorious 1.0 Alpha 1 released March 26, 2009 Mailman 3.0 Beta 3 released December 31, 2012LATEST STABLE
- 10. #1 1997 called; it wants its design back. #2 No ability to search. #3 Clunky navigation; less affordances than mail clients. SOME SURFACE UX ISSUES #4 Intimidating interface for would-be new contributors. #5 Difficult to get clear overview.
- 11. #1 Missed opportunity to improve list interaction dynamics. #2 Barriers to access high-value content / knowledge / history. #3 All lists per server treated equally. SOME DEEPER UX ISSUES #4 Trolls and other scary creatures. #5 Missed opportunity to enable remote collaboration.
- 13. What are we talking about here? MAILMAN POSTORIOUS HYPERKITTY REST API Web UI for list archives Web UI for list management & administration Core server
- 15. 2 years pass. Then...
- 16. A new hope! February 2012, http://ur1.ca/8g7l7February 2012, http://ur1.ca/8g7l7February 2012, http://ur1.ca/8g7l7 #1 Original blog post continued to get a massive number of hits and continued to be widely referenced. #2 Opportunity at Red Hat to commit developer time towards implementation. #3 Great timing with PyCon 2012 and upstream Mailman project interest.
- 18. Summer of Code 2012 Summer 2012, https://github.com/syst3mw0rm/hyperkitty/ Student Aamir Khan (syst3mw0rm,) mentored by Pierre-Yves Chibon ● Login authentication ● Initial reputation system ● Basic user profiles ● Template refactoring / bootstrap ● Discussion threading ● Thread tagging ● Thread rating mechanism ● Initial unit tests
- 19. Aurélien Bompard Joins! August 2012, http://ur1.ca/gvnef Aurélien Bompard joins Red Hat and begins working on HyperKitty full-time in August 2012. ● First alpha release November 23, 2012 ● Moved to Github January 2013 (http://github.com/hyperkitty) ● He continues to crank out *tons* of new features and improvements; details at aurelien.bompard.org and in github
- 20. On the UX front... 2013-2014, http://ur1.ca/gvnb0 Máirín Duffy, Summer 2013+ ● List overview redesign ● Design for user profiles ● Design iterations on UI chrome ● Post category design
- 25. Women's Outreach Program 2014 Dec 2013 - Mar 2014, http://uxscrutiny.com/category/opw/hyperkitty/ Karen Tang (ktnode), mentored by Máirín Duffy ● Bootstrap upgrade to 3.0 ● Massive CSS cleanups ● Addition of LESS to django setup ● Responsive & mobile-friendly layouts ● List overview statistics redesign ● Better personalization in design ● New page stubs: category list, category overview, find user, user public profile ● Icon fixes (upgrade to font icons)
- 27. Photo Credit: “Angry” by Jonathan Grenier on Flickr. Used under a Creative Commons Attribution ShareAlike 2.0 license. #1 Do you expect me to use a lame web UI, like a forum user or something? Ick.
- 28. Photo Credit: “Curious Fennek” by Slapix on Flickr. Used under a Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 license. #2 What about GroupServer?
- 29. Photo Credit: “Curious Tiguak” by ankakay on Flickr. Used under a Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 license. #3 What about Discourse?
- 30. Photo Credit: “Amazed - Maker Faire - 2012” by Scott Loftesness on Flickr. Used under a Creative Commons Attribution ShareAlike Non-Co license. #4 When will it be released?
- 31. Demo time! Follow along at: https://lists.stg.fedoraproject.org/archives/
- 32. #1 Test out our demo server! #2 Report bugs! #3 Check out the code: GETTING INVOLVED #4 Read the docs and install it: #5 Chat with us: https://lists.stg.fedoraproject.org/archives/ http://fedorahosted.org/hyperkitty http://github.com/hyperkitty http://hyperkitty.rtfd.org hyperkitty-devel@lists.fedorahosted.org
- 33. Questions? Fedora 20 • LibreOffice Impress • Inkscape • GIMP • Firefox Creative Commons-licensed artwork • Openly-licensed fonts (M+ among others) This presentation is under a Creative Commons Attribution ShareAlike 3.0 License. Please enjoy and share. This presentation was created through the exclusive use of free software and content: Hyperkitty https://fedorahosted.org/hyperkitty/ https://github.com/hyperkitty/hyperkitty