Development Sprint: October 1st Release

[drguthals]

Welcome to our first Development Sprint Issue tracking our release for October 1st!

Overview

Release Date: October 1st, 2018
Description: This development sprint will be focused on cloning, annotations, internationalization, and improvements to our metrics and documentation.
Review Period: September 17th - 21st
Expect to have all PRs for this release reviewed and merged by the end of the review period
Testing Period: September 24th - 28th
Expect to have the Master branch tested and the release prepped by the end of the testing period

Goals

Community Engagement Goal

Are there PRs from community members?

Hypothesis Pre-Release

We will be seeking to validate/invalidate to these hypothesis prior to release.

Hypothesis	Test	Status	Next Steps	Owner

Hypothesis Post-Release

We will be seeking to validate/invalidate to these hypothesis during the next development cycle.

Hypothesis	Test	Status	Next Steps	Owner

Metrics Added

Title	Link	Owner	Status
Show clone URL tab by default (A/B testing)	#1944	@jcansdale	RfR

Tests Added or Improved

Title	Link	Owner	Status
Integration Tests	#1884	@jcansdale	WIP

Documentation Added or Improved

Title	Link	Owner	Status

Bugs Resolved

Title	Link	Owner	Status

PRs Merged

Title	Link	Owner	Status
Refactor Clone Dialog	#1787	@grokys	Done
Check Run Annotations	#1864	@StanleyGoldman	WIP

[meaghanlewis]

One thing I've been thinking about in terms of this release tracker is that it's the high-level features in each release that will each have: hypotheses, metrics, tests, and documentation rather than all of those being separate things on their own.

Example:

Release milestone: https://github.com/github/VisualStudio/milestone/19

FEATURES / ENHANCEMENTS

Feature: Refactored Clone Dialog
Owner: Steven
Status: 💚 (On-track)
Hypothesis: Repository lists will load faster increasing the number of clones from an org because folks are likely to continue to use our interface rather than another application. Clones from a URL will increase through our interface.

Artifact name	Description	Link	Owner
Tests	unit tests were added	#1787	@grokys
Metrics	metric added: NumberOfCloneViewGitHubTab NumberOfCloneViewEnterpriseTab NumberOfCloneViewUrlTab NumberOfGitHubClones NumberOfEnterpriseClones	#1944	@jcansdale
Metrics	A/B Testing of moving the tab for Clone by URL first	#1944	@jcansdale
Documentation	clone documentation updated	#1943	@meaghanlewis
Documentation	blog	https://docs.google.com/document/d/17re8Q0gvY5k2bsD_vUR2eY-Ts6xId9HNMmAfbCUgieo/edit#	@meaghanlewis
Usability studies	none for this feature

Related PRs:

• A/B metrics testing: Show clone URL tab by default (A/B testing) #1944

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Feature: Internationalization and CrowdIn Support
Owner: @grokys with an assist from @StanleyGoldman @jcansdale @maikebing
Status: 💚 (On-track)
Hypothesis: We have a lot of users who use Visual Studio in another language and we could increase the usage of extension by those users by translating, we could increase the number of users by having translations, and we could increase the number of community supporters (either through CrowdIn translations or through actual contributions). We would like to increase the support we give for community members contributing to our project - if we are accepting more PRs (e.g. this one) we could increase the contributions.

Artifact name	Description	Link
Tests
Metrics	Which language packs users are using with VS
Documentation
Usability studies

Related PRs:

• Last Few Translations - New Crowdin translations #1941

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Feature: Check Run annotations
Owner: Stanley
Status: 🏈 (punted for next release while we continue to iterate)
Hypothesis: Users will get more information about their build status inside of Visual Studio for each PR meaning they spend more time using our extension.

Artifact name	Description	Link
Tests	unit tests were added	#1864
Metrics	metric added to track when annotations are viewed	PR #
Documentation	documentation in progress for this feature	PR #
Usability studies	1 done on 9/20	https://drive.google.com/drive/u/1/folders/14mdDrWHd-CC6CMkQeeBjeIq3Y1zaDcSF?ogsrc=32

BUGS

Bugs Resolved

Title	Link	Owner	Status
Extension sometimes doesn't activate on GitHub repository	#1924	@jcansdale	✅
Space in the search box - crash/exit	#1948	@jcansdale	✅

PRs to Merge

Unified Clone - #1919

[drguthals]

I LOVE this @meaghanlewis Thank you!