Pairing tool improvements

[saljuama]

Description

The current pairing tool, while being useful in the last workshops, is still a single page app prototype and has some limitations, like not being able to maintain state and/or add other informations useful for the organisers when preparing the pairs.

Also any kind of improvement, most likely will require a backend, and this will require some resources and accounts, this should not be managed/owned by any individual, regardless being organisers, but this should belong to Codebar.

Scope

• Use codebar github repos and codebar owned accounts to host the application
• Setup a backlog to track properly new feature requests
• Update documentation (if needed)

[amaliacardenas]

@saljuama will speak with @KimberleyCook to see if the pairing tool can be moved to a codebar owned account and if further features need to be added.

[saljuama]

@saljuama moved the pairing tool to codebar repo, and opened a project to track requests, feedback and other stuff
will continue iterating to make it part of the codebar ecosystem

TODO: add an open source license, reuse same as codebar website MIT

[Klarala13]

@saljuama added the "auto assign" button. He has also been working on/thinking about other improvements such as marking new people, allowing for "touch" event (not only mouse event), inverting group order for drag and drop usability, etc. And that´s great! and it works really well.
Maybe we can do some "pair" programming (with however many people want to join :) )

This is the link to the tool

[Bozena611]

we might organize a session to explore it during the summer break.

[daverick]

no advance but it is good

[Klarala13]

It works well for now, If anything comes up and some improvements are needed there is the trello board we can use to note it and let @saljuama know. However, for now, it works really well.
One of the current limitations is touch screen, but we can look at it later on.
If it comes up, we can do a chill session and Salva can explain what he did so we can all work on it.

[daverick]

no advance but it is good!

[amaliacardenas]

Nothing new to update and that is great 👍

[Klarala13]

Nothing to update this month and that is ok :)

[Bozena611]

No updates and that's still ok :-)

[ancagabriela]

No updates and that's still ok :-) we will prioritize it when we get more people and in-person workshops

[Klarala13]

Now that we are thinking about going back to in person, it would be good to know if it´s worth to keep working on this and how many people will be comming to the workshops to see if it´s worth it. If it is we can invest time on it.
Let´s try to find some time to meet and @saljuama can show us the code a bit so we can start to play around with it.