Update

Currently prototyping layouts/wireframe in this Mural board (🔒). Aiming to meet with the content/comms team to review and refine by the end of this week.

Update

• Layout work has been moved to this Figjam board (🔒).
• The wireframe was presented to the team on 2/5 and given the go-ahead for development (see meeting notes for details 🔒).
• I have started to build out the prototype in PR [Prototype] USWDS-Site: What's new page round 2 #3094

Updating the complexity from 3 to 7 points

@amyleadem Can you share what impacted the complexity? Could the initial scope of this could be completed this sprint and we can add new scoped changes to the next? That way we can review as a team how those new scoped items weigh against the other tasks that we need to complete.

@dct2023 Good callout. I think the issue is that I started mixing the prototype with the build phase. We are on track for getting this prototype issue into FFR/Done status for this sprint. I can create a follow-on issue for the "build" phase to refine the code for production.

• I've reverted the complexity here back to 3.
• I opened issue USWDS-Site - What's new: Build production code for phase 2 prototype #3113 to track the progress on converting the prototype into production-level code and assigned it to next sprint.

Let me know if you have any questions or concerns.

@amyleadem can we create a feature branch to merge prototype work into, close this issue, and use that feature branch to start work in #3113?

@mejiaj I have a slightly different merge strategy (more details below), but I am open to marking this prototype as done and moving on to the production build work.

Merge strategy

The PR for this prototype is a combination of three different PRs and branches. Because the prototype does a lot and touches hundreds of files, my merge strategy is to unwind this work back to the original three branches and merge each into a feature branch. This should simplify the review effort, especially since the first PR is already if FFR.

I propose the following merge order:

1. USWDS-Site - What's new: Create posts_short directory and add new items #3064 (this is in FFR)
   1. Adds short post content type and creates new posts
2. USWDS-Site: Enhance what's new page layout #3115
   1. Updates the layout of the what's new and all news pages without the consolidated changelog
3. Add a consolidated What's New changelog view #3091
   1. Adds consolidated changelog and updates existing changelog data

Confirmed this was completed and additional work items live elsewhere.