Roadmap
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Real Soon Now I intend to replace this page with a proper user-submittable comments page, but for the time being please make comments and suggestions (including suggestions of additional tasks or councils to add) to me at simon.gray@birmingham.gov.uk.
In the meanwhile, this site is still in early development with a lot of known rough edges; here are the things I know need doing as a matter of priority:
- Exclude portions of tests which haven't been fully completed from the averaging process when generating results,
- Account for the recently added page readability metric in the results,
- API functionality to enable embedding of the test form onto specific council website pages or to enable direct links to the form from specific pages,
- Tools for council webmasters to enable them to indicate when a service page or the whole website has had significant changes made to it,
Finish off the user profile section so users can edit their profiles, opt to receive email updates, and, erm, reset their password when they forget itdone!,- Start on some of the comparison charts, including task-based leaderboard and council comparison against the average for similar councils, and
Add page readability as a testing metric.done!
Other features and developments, ranging from slightly less urgent to being good to do when somebody gets chance, include:
- Sort out the home page so it isn't a very long list of councils mostly showing no tests completed,
- Get all the district councils added. That's a very long list,
- Similarly add councils in Wales, Scotland, and Northern Ireland,
- Comprehensive UI/UX improvements,
- explode("/",$_SERVER['REQUEST_URI']); implemented to hide the variable names on all pages,
- XML / JSON / CSV feeds of data,
- The ability on results pages to filter by date so people can see different results according to before and after such changes were made,
- The ability to add custom tasks for specific councils,
- Some form of gamification element / league table of testers as incentivisation to people to complete more and more tests, and
- Lots more!
Each of those ideas in themselves can be broken down into number of sub-ideas.
If you are good at .php and MySQL or if you are good at HTML, CSS, and JavaScript for UI/UX and would like to help make this a better tool for all its users, then email me above!