Meta: GitHub-sourced Mindmap

[adamziel]

Motivation for the change, related issues

Renders a mindmap of linked projects from GitHub issues to make connections and dependencies visible. The project grew so much, I couldn't process the incoming work in my head anymore. This is a v1 of a tool I hope to use to:

• Quickly figure out is any particular new issue relevant in the short term
• Communicate why a specific project matters
• Track the progress we're making towards larger goals – they will become more apparent as this mindmap grows

Future work

• CI-generated public HTML page
• A more reliable way to connect two issues
• A basic UI to connect another node directly from the app
• Server side rendering to easily include highlighted mindmap fragments in issues descriptions

Implementation details

• Downloads the list of issues from Playground-related repositories using GitHub's GraphQL API
• Connects any two issues/prs with [Type] Mindmap Node label
• Connects all issues mentioned in issues/prs with label [Type] Mindmap Tree
• Starts at the Roadmap issue
• Uses D3.js to render an interactive mindmap with clickable links

Testing Instructions (or ideally a Blueprint)

Run:

npm run mindmap

And go to http://127.0.0.1:5269/

cc @bgrgicak @brandonpayton

[adamziel]

I need this to think so I'll go ahead and merge. A publicly rendered link etc will come later