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Having Gitflow ❤️ Design as a recommendation by Bitcoin Design for FOSS Bitcoin projects #14
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Shared by @pedromvpg in the slack, the Gitflow ❤️ Design git workflow proposed by @diogorsergio would be a great recommendation we could offer to FOSS Bitcoin projects.
We could also include a detailed how-to on Gitflow Design in the guide resources section.
Details on the Gitflow Design git workflow can be found here
What do you all think?
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GBKS commentedon Aug 7, 2020
I'd like to see more discussion and actual use of this flow to validate it, particularly in the bigger picture of a full-fledged design process from initial discussion to asset export and QA. A few thoughts:
Maybe we can test this in projects we are involved in and try to refine it. I also think we're going to have a section about open design in the guide that can tackle this.
diogorsergio commentedon Aug 7, 2020
The gitflow design is a work in progress, but its definitely better than the alternative or having no process at all.
To address some of your points @GBKS:
UX and UI distintiction came from following a typical product development process where, UX is usually done first (Research, Wireframes) and then moved on to visual design (UI), so the idea was to separate both streams of work. What we see for the most part in open-source development is that one person takes on both roles so in this case we can just name the branches UX/UI instead and bundle them together.
The workflow doesn't recomend any design tools those are examples. What the workflow says is for participants to stick to open file formats (.SVG for vector files / .ORA for raster files) in their exports no matter what tool they use, so that any designer can start straight away without being stopped by files of paid software, this way participants can use what ever tool they want, with the common ground of open file formats. I love Figma, but Figma is proprietary. Is Figma gonna be around in 5/10 years time? Figma is free, what if the incentives change down the line?
I've been using the gitflow in the https://github.com/Ride-The-Lightning/RTL-Design repo and its been great, but there are also downsides of course. So I'm refining things as I go and trying to improve it. But for open-source projects who don't have any design workflow/guidelines this is a good way to start.
moneyball commentedon Aug 12, 2020
Out of curiosity, if Figma (or any proprietary tool) were to offer
a) an export option for all data (including comments)
b) an open-source viewing tool
Would this address the valid concerns @diogorsergio raised?
GBKS commentedon Dec 7, 2020
Picking up this topic again as I think that workflow recommendations would be helpful. Maybe we can come up with 2-3 different ones for different sizes and types of projects. A small team that just starts explorations for a new project has different needs than a 50 person dev + design team for a mature application. Workflows can ideally scale well and if we can have a few different recommendations that users can choose from then they don't have to reinvent the wheel. This could be a nice extension to the Open design page, as well as the suggested page about design collaboration.
Some topics to consider:
I'm sure there's a lot more, but I wanted to share some starting points here.
Bosch-0 commentedon Apr 28, 2021
Move this to a discussion maybe? @pavlenex
GBKS commentedon Apr 28, 2021
Good idea. Will do.