April 10, 2024 - Updates, priorities of the week

Back to GC Web Priorities Meetings - Réunions des Priorités Web du GC

Meeting information

Agenda

1. Updates

2. Roundtable

Notes and action item

Updates

• CRA presentation postponed to May 1

PCO

• Budget is launching April 16, 4pm
  • One hour AEM newsroom pause 3:30-4:30pm
  • Blackout is for AEM newsroom items only
  • Stay tuned, more details next week
  • If you are looking for specific answers, talk with your internal comms colleagues, they are your first point of contact
• April promo updates coming up in April
  • One about measles coming soon from Health Canada

• If you have questions about WET, they have office hours on Tuesdays, more details here: https://github.com/wet-boew/wet-boew/wiki/WET-Office-hours,-Heures-de-service-de-la-BOEW

Discussion

The méli-mélo feature in WET is unstable and some participants mentioned that they would like it to be more stable. There were many issues with pages “breaking”.

Others said it was meant to be experimental, but the argument was made that the experimental period was taking too long.

The fact that a lot of web design elements are not funded was discussed, and many agreed that this was a problem that hampered forwarding the work.

DTO replied:

This is how WET is managed today, but changes are coming. Eventually we will be discussing the GC Design system rather than WET. We are hoping that changes will be more efficient in the new system that is coming.

Timelines

Alpha project is available and you can experiment with it now. We anticipate it will be in alpha mode for several months. We will be coming out with more information for the community about the changeover from WET to GC Design system in the coming weeks.

Question section (Ask me anything)

How does the information get disseminated to the developers through the community? For example our team was going to switch to Drupal, and they had no idea that the GC Design System was coming.

DTO Answer:

Our hope is that the Web teams at departments are conduits to educate their colleagues. So this meeting is one of the main communication tools.

Follow up to all participants:

If anyone has guidance documents for synching up comms and tech staff, please forward it along to: Abigail.Hambly@tpsgc-pwgsc.gc.ca

Question:

About the topic template, all of our content needs to be updated to new templates. Is it a good time to update, should I wait?

Answer:

We talked to Principal Publisher about timelines for making the Beta pattern into the default pattern. This should all be stabilized by the end of this fiscal year. So you can go ahead and use the Beta versions that are available right now.  

Comment:

Next Monday we’re discussing accessible POWER Bi dashboards on the web. Sign up at this link if you’re interested: https://events.teams.microsoft.com/event/da6851d0-d919-4d16-9e45-1f23a285d1ab@9da98bb1-1857-4cc3-8751-9a49e35d24cd

DTO:

It’s clear that we need more follow up on this issue, to find out exactly what happened, how much of an effect it has had on pages, on how to rectify the problems. We’ll be working on this in the coming days.

Question:

Based on the discussion, I’m assuming that a lot of the groups are under AEM. My team uses Drupal. We can’t easily update our H1, will there be a fix in Drupal for this? We are getting pressure from our senior management.

Answer:

The WXT team has a ticket on this issue. We can share the ticket with you to give you more details about it so you can share it with others in your department.

Question:

The Canadian General Standards want to do consultations. Is there a move to a general system for consultations? Or should we just build our own system?

Answer:

No, at this time, there’s no move for a standardized system. There has been work on this in the past but it hasn’t led anywhere. Suggest you reach out on Slack, because many departments have done this kind of work.

Question:

Is there a plan to pivot from the current “non funded” web framework to a well funded digital focus that supports building better digital services.

Answer:

In summary, that's the plan with the GC Design System. You can check out the alpha version: https://design-system.alpha.canada.ca/

We can suggest that you connect with the CDS platform team to help with the development of the new system.

Roundtable

ECCC

• New CCR estimates tool is now live: https://www.canada.ca/en/revenue-agency/services/child-family-benefits/cai-payment/how-much.html

WAGE

• We migrated to AEM this week, here are the new URLs: https://www.canada.ca/en/women-gender-equality.html

DND

• New defense policy released on Monday: https://www.canada.ca/en/department-national-defence/corporate/reports-publications/north-strong-free-2024.html
• Also new content for Air Force Centennial

PSPC

• PSPC is continuing our migration to Canada.ca. We'll be undertaking an optimization project for Pay content this spring.

DTO

• The Gen AI Chatbot Collaborative Working group kickoff meeting is being planned for next week to review the draft guidance - in case anyone here is unaware of the Chatbot channel on GC Comms Slack and wants to add someone to the group or just follow along.