Alas, I don’t think so. The Github API here has historically been kind of a pain to work with. Not sure whether it’s impossible, but I can’t think of a way of doing this.
In a deep sense, the features and projects developers work on is both socially/individually determined, as well as in the direct control of a project manager or lead.
It seems really implausible that people could directly vote on them.
A major issue is the quality of information (internet crowd). If we ignored this and the upvotes somehow perfectly reflected the omniscient, ideal preferences of the community (and things along the lines of Arrow’s theorem weren’t an issue), it would still be different than what would be worked on for idiosyncratic/personal/planning reasons.
If this would be done, it would be by the leads/manager getting this would-be feedback...and that’s sort of what Lizka/Ben West/JPA/Habryka are doing, in this very thread.
Oh god, no. We have like 400 open Github issues, most of them random backend bugs that nobody should ever really engage, and that are quite unclear to people without context of software engineering experience.
Orgs I’ve been a product manager for want this information. And the EA community is higher signal than most. So I’m curious what your posture towards it is if it was easy to obtain.
@JP, I’ll confess I don’t know what PR stands for in this context and I’m confused from the linked site if this is something I can install in my browser!
Sorry about that! When a developer opens a Pull Request on Github it means that they have ~completed work on a feature or a bugfix, and are submitting their code to be pulled to the main branch of the code. So what you’re seeing is a feature that EA Forum engineer Sarah Cheng has built for the Forum, to be released soon.
[This might be totally wrong and please remember I have much less of an intuition about UX than you, but]
This seems to be focusing on visual components like “tabs” instead of the thing which would be intuitive to me, which I’d call “search capabilities”. I’d personally be happy to have all the searchable content of the forum pushed into some DB that works well with search, and use some open source search-UI that someone else built for that DB. This PR seems like rebuilding a UI like that which probably exists already, no?
[remember my disclaimer!]
[I can find a specific UI that seems nice to me if that would help]
Ability to see search results in chronological order
This is not quite what you’re asking for, but see the related feature in this timely PR!
THANK YOU, this is life changing!
Man, I am excited to finally see a decent search page. It’s been sad for so long.
Is there a way that users could vote on issues on the forum and then the could be ranked according to that on the github?
Alas, I don’t think so. The Github API here has historically been kind of a pain to work with. Not sure whether it’s impossible, but I can’t think of a way of doing this.
What if there was a post that was automatically populated with all open github issues and people could up and downvote them with karma?
Do you think that would create value for you?
In a deep sense, the features and projects developers work on is both socially/individually determined, as well as in the direct control of a project manager or lead.
It seems really implausible that people could directly vote on them.
A major issue is the quality of information (internet crowd). If we ignored this and the upvotes somehow perfectly reflected the omniscient, ideal preferences of the community (and things along the lines of Arrow’s theorem weren’t an issue), it would still be different than what would be worked on for idiosyncratic/personal/planning reasons.
If this would be done, it would be by the leads/manager getting this would-be feedback...and that’s sort of what Lizka/Ben West/JPA/Habryka are doing, in this very thread.
Oh god, no. We have like 400 open Github issues, most of them random backend bugs that nobody should ever really engage, and that are quite unclear to people without context of software engineering experience.
What if any with the label “frontend” went here?
Orgs I’ve been a product manager for want this information. And the EA community is higher signal than most. So I’m curious what your posture towards it is if it was easy to obtain.
@JP, I’ll confess I don’t know what PR stands for in this context and I’m confused from the linked site if this is something I can install in my browser!
Sorry about that! When a developer opens a Pull Request on Github it means that they have ~completed work on a feature or a bugfix, and are submitting their code to be pulled to the main branch of the code. So what you’re seeing is a feature that EA Forum engineer Sarah Cheng has built for the Forum, to be released soon.
Awesome, thank you for the explanation! I learned something new today :)
[This might be totally wrong and please remember I have much less of an intuition about UX than you, but]
This seems to be focusing on visual components like “tabs” instead of the thing which would be intuitive to me, which I’d call “search capabilities”. I’d personally be happy to have all the searchable content of the forum pushed into some DB that works well with search, and use some open source search-UI that someone else built for that DB. This PR seems like rebuilding a UI like that which probably exists already, no?
[remember my disclaimer!]
[I can find a specific UI that seems nice to me if that would help]
Tried adding a Google Custom Search, you can try it here and see what you think:
https://cse.google.com/cse?cx=21fe57e08e3c5467c
(spoiler: I don’t really like it)
I like linking pull requests to things! I think the community could be much more aware of how this works and try and support it.
TIL that the code for LessWrong/EA Forum is open source.