March 2020 Planning

[joshblack]

Timeline

March 2nd, 2020 - March 6th, 2020

• Start patch release
• Weekly issue and proposal triage
  • March 6th

March 9th, 2020 - March 13th, 2020

• Ship patch release
• Start patch release
• Weekly issue and proposal triage
  • March 13th

March 16th, 2020 - March 20th, 2020

• Ship patch release
• Start patch release
• Weekly issue and proposal triage
  • March 20th cancelled

March 23rd, 2020 - March 27th, 2020

• Ship patch release
• Start endgame (Release candidate, minor release)
• Demo day
  • March 26th
• Retro
  • March 26th
• Planning for April Iteration
  • March 26th (leadership)
  • March 27th (team)
• Weekly issue and proposal triage
  • March 27th

March 30th, 2020 - April 3rd, 2020

• Ship minor release
• Weekly issue and proposal triage
  • April 3rd

Goals

Increase the quality of components and icons

• Migrate the 3 components of varied complexity to use the new template
• Create component documentation template Component documentation carbon-website#862 @janchild @jillianhowarth + tbd dev
  • Production guidelines Production guidelines carbon-website#934 @jeanservaas @laurenmrice
• Clear WCAG 2.1 AA violations for 9 remaining components WCAG 2.1 AA compliance #4828
  • CodeSnippet Code snippet screen reader issues in JAWS 2020 #2523 JAWS 2020 Code Snippet "Copied to clipboard" and "Copyable code snippet" announced twice #5553 @tw15egan
  • Combobox @emyarod
    • AVT 3 - React Combobox macOS VoiceOver screenreader issues #3419
    • AVT 3 - React Combobox Component iOS screenreader issues #3418
    • AVT 3 - React Combobox Component JAWS screenreader issues #3416
  • DataTable @asudoh
    • DataTable TableContainer title/description cannot be referenced to label/describe Table (via aria-labelledby/aria-describedby) #3805 PR- feat(TableContainer): support id-ref for the header #4807
    • JAWS does not announce popup after column selection #5242 PR- fix(DataTable): announce table batch action bar #5631
  • DatePicker tbd designer + dev
    • [date-picker] focus state on calendar dropdown clashes with selected date #5308
    • [date-picker] component is not accessible via screenreader #5310 PR-fix(DatePickerInput): announce keyboard guide #5375
  • Dropdown @aledavila
    • AVT 3 Dropdown - VO does not announce the option after it is selected or the options position in the list.. #4373 PR-fix(Dropdown): announce dropdown item position #5193
    • [Dropdown] Menu items are not read by JAWS 2019/NVDA #5211
  • Modal @emyarod
    • AVT 3 - Modal React Component: iOS Focus Trap #2739
    • AVT 3 - Modal React Component: Android does not restrict focus to the modal #2740
    • Modal issues with bx--visually-hidden #5545
  • NumberInput AVT 3 NumberInput Components - VO does not announce value or increment when the up and down arrows used to input the number #4185
  • FileUploader AVT 3 - React FileUploader X icon is not announced by JAWS and it does not clear the selection #3437 @joshblack
    • Cleared the first PR, just working through DAP violations in test
  • MultiSelect @abbeyhrt
    • AVT 3 - React MultiSelect multiple navigation issues while using VO #4197
    • Can't access options menu in multiselect with screen reader on Firefox #5093
  • StructuredList @dakahn + tbd designer
    • [StructuredList] Unable to navigate with keyboard #2820
    • AVT 3 - Carbon X Structured List does not announce checkbox or checkbox status using a screen reader #1937
  • Tile [SelectableTile]: selected state almost not distinguishable when in focus #5174 @joshblack - PR feat(tile): only show chevron on selection #5667
  • Tooltip @dakahn + @aagonzales
    • [Tooltip] needs additional functionality to make it accessible #5488
    • Tooltip window contents not reachable using the keyboard #5365 PR? feat(FloatingMenu): conditionally set focus in floating menu on menu open #5489
• Achieve consistent icons and pictograms across all sources, kits, libraries, and docs @joshblack @emyarod @laurenmrice

Understand why teams are creating separate sites related to Carbon

• Publish an audit of all PAL and BX sites @connor-leech
• Interview 3 PAL/BX site maintainers
• Create 25 community engagement desired outcome statements
• Internally visualize possible to-be relationships in a system of systems
• Develop a Community section for PAL sites and Experimental patterns @janchild @shinytoyrobots

Component enhancements

• Size variants for components @tw15egan
  • Proposal: Support for 48px versions of a wider range of components #5455 “Proposal: Support for 48px versions of a wider range of components”
  • Proposal: Extend 'short' field size support to all form inputs #5448 “Proposal: Extend ‘short’ field size support to all form inputs”
  • [number input] add 48px and 32px size options #5441 “[number input] add 48px and 32px size options”
• [Design] Treeview @designertyler @emyarod
• [Dev] Tabs @abbeyhrt

UI shell

• [Design] Define shell theming: Update UI Shell to use our theming tokens #4839 @aagonzales
• UI Shell tertiary nav
• Inline theming documentation

Website Enhancements
collaboration w/ aux

• [Design] Feedback component https://github.com/carbon-design-system/carbon-website/issues/922
• [Design] Component status page: define mvp solution [component status] MVP solution carbon-website#936
• Image component enhancements
  • Dev] Size options for "image--fixed" Add size options for "image--fixed" component carbon-website#943
  • [Dev] Group image component Group image component carbon-website#945

Support

• Thank you card (design) @jeanservaas (production) @aagonzales
• Design kit backlog
• Elements documentation improvements @alisonjoseph (moving to April, meeting w/ Jan/Connor pushed due to covid-19 website work & other priorities)
• Pagination contribution feat(unstable-pagination): add refactored experimental pagination component #5485
• 1-2 bug-related PRs a week pulled from our the list below or our prioritized backlog
  • Progress Bar step labels look like a link tag but nothing happens when clicking on it #5515
  • DataTable with sticky header has reduced width #3911
  • Discrepancy between React link hover color and spec #5549
  • TextInput placeholder text needs ellipsis for long text #5517
  • [Tag] - needs default type for carbon website component demo #5506 (blocking component demo updates)
  • [RadioButton]: missing propTypes #5435 (blocking component demo updates)
  • [NumberInput]: missing propTyles #5434 (blocking component demo updates)
  • SideNav does not collapse when it should #3710
  • Batch Action is not correctly working in Data Table #4550
  • [FileUploader/FileUploaderButton, react, bug?]: FileUploader & FileUploaderButton component in react adds bx--btn--sm CSS style to the button which is not present in VanillaJS implementation #2715
  • (tile) clickable tile should not have blue text #4850
• Answer 5-10 questions a week on Slack or GitHub

Stretch goals

• [Dev] Fluid inputs
• [Dev] Treeview
• [Dev] Pagination (small pagination in React) feat:(Pagination): Stand alone Small pagination #2634
• [Dev] Textarea (character counter) [Text input] Add character limit/counter #1672
• [Dev] Dropdown (move helper text below) enhancement[helper text]: move helper text below input fields and dropdowns #5279
• [Dev] Dropdown (default selection behavior) [Dropdown] Change default selection behavior #3531n
• [Dev] Interactive tooltip alignment Add alignment to the Carbon's tooltip component #3837