Hi ODKers,
Let’s kick this issue off with a big welcome to Win (@nribeka) who was
just voted in by the project management committee as a committer to
ODK!
Win has been part of the ODK community since 2012 when he worked on
ODK Clinic’s integration with OpenMRS. He recently deepened his
involvement by helping new ODK contributors on Slack
(http://slack.opendatakit.org), reviewing pull requests, filing
issues, and of course, writing code. ODK’s developer community is
healthier because of Win’s efforts and we are glad to have him as a
committer!
Speaking of healthy communities, if you aren’t on the users’ list at
http://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/opendatakit you should join and
help answer support questions! It’s the fastest way to become a great
contributor for these reasons:
- Helping users gives you insight on how to make good design decisions
on ODK and come up with features that matter. - Helping users reduces the time committers spend on support and that
directly translates to more committer time fixing issues, reviewing
code, and moving the project forward. - Helping users is fun and rewarding. Our users mostly work in social
good and really appreciate our efforts. Sometimes they just need a
little bit of help to succeed and you can make a big difference by
providing that support!
This month
- Shipping new release of Collect on April 26th. We’ll freeze code
contributions on April 22nd. Track the progress of the April Release
at https://github.com/opendatakit/collect/milestone/2 - Major upgrades to Build, including a 100x improvement in form
loading times from Clint (@clint-tseng)! More at
https://github.com/opendatakit/build/pull/110 - Working towards automated style checks in Collect and Briefcase.
Follow the progress at
https://github.com/opendatakit/collect/issues/602 and
https://github.com/opendatakit/briefcase/issues/94 - Finishing library upgrades and moves to gradle (even JavaRosa!)
across all tools
Next month
- Start UI/UX Refresh of Collect. Material design, here we come!
- Ship update to Briefcase and Validate.
Feedback needed
- Tom (@hooverlunch) and Shobhit (@shobhitagarwal1612) are working on
an exciting new feature to bulk configure phones via QR codes! Help
shape it by commenting at
https://github.com/opendatakit/collect/issues/781
Quick way to contribute
- If you like the frequent updates to Collect, leave a positive review
at https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.odk.collect.android - If you can’t leave a positive review, then file your issues at
https://github.com/opendatakit/collect/issues/new
See you next time,
Yaw
P.S. Have you ever noticed how confusing some doors are? It’s not just
you! Watch https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yY96hTb8WgI to learn why.