Project: TAlent Assistant™

Overview

TAlent Assistant™ is a desktop lightweight and centralized management system catered to professors for managing the process of hiring undergraduate/graduate Teaching Assistants (TA). They will be able to access the TAs’ application data easily and review qualifications or availability for scheduling interviews. It is optimized for use via a Command Line Interface (CLI) while still having the benefits of a Graphical User Interface (GUI). If you can type fast, this application will be able to help you manage all things under the hood of the TA initiative faster than traditional GUI applications.

Given below are my contributions to the project.

  • New Feature: InterviewStatus #87
    • Created a new attribute for the Candidate for the user to tag.
    • Justification: This will enable the user to be able to see clearly which Candidates have not been scheduled.
    • Highlights: Created triggers for the InterviewStatus to be toggled automatically.
    • Worked with other team members to allow InterviewStatus to be toggled according to the Scheduling system in the Application.
  • New Feature: ApplicationStatus #87
    • Created a new attribute for the Candidate for the user to tag.
    • Justification: This will enable the user to tag the Candidate according to their Application outcome.
    • Worked with other team members to ensure the statuses integrate well with the Scheduling system.
  • New Feature: focus command #180
    • Created a new feature to allow a Candidate's information to be populated in the center panel.
    • Justification: Remove clutter in the main list, and only retrieve Candidate's information when necessary.
    • Highlights: Enabled the center panel to refresh when the Candidate's interview or statuses is edited

  • Code contributed: RepoSense link You may view my code contributions via the RepoSense link provided!

  • Project management:
    • Managed release of v1.2 and v1.3.1 (2 releases on Github)
  • Enhancements to existing features:
    • UI Development: Added new colour boxes for the InterviewStatus and ApplicationStatus to be displayed more vibrantly.
  • Documentation:
    • User Guide
      • Added documentation for new commands like focus.
      • Added documentation for statuses like InterviewStatus and ApplicationStatus.
      • Enhanced documentation on help command.
      • Included documentation on triggers for statuses such as InterviewStatus and ApplicationStatus.
    • Developer’s Guide:
      • Added diagrams for help, ApplicationStatus and InterviewStatus.
  • Contributions to team-based tasks:
    • Helped set up the team organisation on GitHub.
    • Helping team members when required.
  • Community
    • PRs reviewed (with non-trivial review comments): #221 #199 #55 #384
    • PRs with suggestions: #238