Odyssey MVP Roadmap

[decentralion]

Let’s use this thread to align on what features/workstreams we need to launch the first version of the Odyssey MVP.

First, goal scoping:

Odyssey MVP 1

• The Odyssey plugin (as seen as sourcecred.io/odyssey-hackathon) is integrated into the SourceCred codebase
  • ask for @brutalfluffy/@eugene: fix up the frontend as found here:
  • Port skeleton of Odyssey frontend by decentralion · Pull Request #1132 · sourcecred/sourcecred · GitHub
• The data is hardcoded in the codebase, and there is no way for contributors to edit it
• The website has been re-designed to be consistent with the odyssey plugin, and the plugin is prominently linked to from the homepage

Odyssey MVP 2

• The Odyssey plugin now supports users manually updating the SourceCred distribution
• Users can manually add/edit nodes and connections and re-run PageRank
• Users can save the data that backs their edited cred distribution
• Users can create new graphs (e.g. to create reference cases for credit attribution)

Odyssey MVP 3

• Users can submit changes to the core SourceCred distribution via a “create pull request” button

Odyssey Full Graph

• The Odyssey plugin is integrated with the whole SourceCred grpah (inc. data from GitHub)

This post co-authored with @mzargham @brutalfluffy

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Odyssey "Manual Mode" Brainstorming

So far, SourceCred has depended on GitHub for its data—it considers every issue, pull request, and comment to be a contribution, and assigns scores to these based on how they interrelate. It’s a powerful approach, but it’s missing the human context. What if we use this hackathon to explore a different approach: one which is focused, first and foremost, on user experience, and soliciting informtaion from contributors. I’m imagining a “SourceCred editor” which allows you to define the cred in a p…