Individual Contributions

Eray Yüklü

Responsibilities

• Backend architecture maintenance and documentation from previous semester (CMPE 352)
• Requirements engineering and W3C standards compliance
• Customer meeting preparation and elicitation question development
• Frontend development (transitioned mid-milestone due to team workload distribution)
• Cross-platform integration and deployment coordination
• Meeting facilitation, note-taking, and issue management

Main Contributions

Backend Foundation & Documentation

Successfully migrated and maintained the backend system developed in CMPE 352, ensuring its reliability for Milestone 1. Reviewed and approved the backend migration PR #249, analyzed existing API documentation, and identified areas for improvement #232.

Requirements & Standards Compliance

Updated UML Sequence diagrams for Select Assignee and Recover Password features to reflect current implementation #225. Reviewed and validated sequence diagram implementations from team members #228.

Customer Engagement & Elicitation

Organized and facilitated customer alignment meeting #263, prepared comprehensive elicitation questions #265, created detailed meeting agenda #266, and implemented post-meeting requirement updates #268. Led backend team meeting specifically for elicitation question preparation #275.

Frontend Development (Critical Mid-Milestone Transition)

Recognizing the frontend team's heavy workload and leveraging the stable backend foundation, transitioned to active frontend development role for the second half of Milestone 1. This demonstrated versatility across project domains, which is highly valued in this course. Key implementations include:

• Developed Volunteer a Task feature #290
• Implemented Select Volunteer functionality #335 with PR #334
• Created Request Details Page with comprehensive functionality PR #342
• Fixed critical page reload bug after volunteering action #347
• Reviewed the resolved UI issues including categories, cards, and password reset flows PR #331

Backend Logic Refinement

Implemented critical task status management logic to enforce count-based POSTED/ASSIGNED transitions #383 with PR #384, ensuring tasks remain in POSTED status until volunteer capacity is reached.

Deployment & Integration

Led deployment efforts for Milestone 1 #362, resolved critical backend-frontend connection issues on remote server #404 with PR #416. Conducted intensive cross-platform troubleshooting with mobile team to resolve authentication issues #419, implementing CORS configuration fixes PR #420 through synchronous HTTP status monitoring between GCP VM server and Expo-Go mobile environment.

Demo Preparation

Created comprehensive demo users and sample tasks for Milestone 1 presentation #425 to showcase platform functionality effectively.

Project Management & Documentation

Systematically created and organized parent-child issue hierarchies from meeting notes with proper labels and assignments Issues #217-232. Took detailed meeting notes and maintained wiki documentation for Meeting 1 (Wiki Link) and Meeting 3 (Wiki Link). Created Lab 3 report documentation (Wiki Link). Updated and managed milestone implementation issue due dates #313.

Code-related Significant Issues

• Issue #225 – Updated UML Sequence diagrams for Select Assignee and Recover Password
• Issue #232 – Analyzed backend implementation and reviewed API documentation
• Issue #290 – Implemented Volunteer a Task frontend feature
• Issue #335 – Developed Select Volunteer frontend functionality
• Issue #347 – Fixed page reload bug after volunteering
• Issue #383 – Implemented task status logic for POSTED/ASSIGNED transitions
• Issue #404 – Resolved backend-frontend connection issues on deployment server
• Issue #419 – Fixed authentication issues for mobile platform access

Non-code-related Significant Issues

• Issue #216 – Attended and participated in Thursday evening team meeting
• Issue #263 – Organized Customer Alignment Meeting
• Issue #265 – Prepared comprehensive elicitation questions for customer meeting
• Issue #266 – Created detailed customer meeting agenda
• Issue #268 – Implemented post-meeting requirement updates
• Issue #275 – Organized backend team meeting for elicitation questions
• Issue #296 – Created Lab 3 report and documentation
• Issue #307 – Took detailed notes during Meeting 3
• Issue #313 – Updated due dates for Milestone 1 implementation issues
• Issue #362 – Coordinated deployment of current application version
• Issue #425 – Created demo users and tasks for Milestone 1 presentation
• Issue #446 – Documented Milestone 1 personal contributions

Pull Requests Created, Merged, and Reviewed

Created & Merged

• PR #334 – feat: FRONTEND - Select Volunteer Page
• PR #342 – feat: FRONTEND - Request Details Page
• PR #384 – feat(task-status): enforce count-based POSTED/ASSIGNED logic
• PR #416 – fix(deployment): point frontend API to 35.222.191.20:8000
• PR #420 – fix(auth): allow all origins (intensive cross-platform debugging with mobile team)

Reviewed & Merged

• PR #249 – Old Backend Added (critical migration from CMPE 352)
• PR #331 – fix(ui): categories, cards, forgot and reset password
• PR #389 – Reviewed and approved frontend improvements

Issues Reviewed

• #228 – Diagram Update(Cancel Assistance & Ban User)
• #235 – Login/Register frontend review
• #252 – GitHub Projects configuration review
• #253,#348 – Other Team Members' Personal Weekly Report review
• #285 – Requirements Update Review
• #330 – Frontend UI Refactors Review

Conflicts & Resolutions

No major merge conflicts encountered. Minor conflicts during PR integrations were resolved through careful coordination with team members. The authentication fix PR #420 required extensive synchronous debugging sessions with the mobile team, monitoring HTTP status codes between the GCP VM server and Expo-Go mobile environment to identify and resolve CORS configuration issues.

Additional Information

Cross-Domain Expertise

Demonstrated versatility by actively contributing to backend architecture, requirements engineering, customer engagement, frontend development, and deployment operations throughout Milestone 1. This comprehensive involvement across multiple project domains aligns with course expectations for holistic participation.

Meeting Participation

Consistently attended all team meetings (#216, #256, #275, #373), took detailed notes, and facilitated discussions. Created comprehensive meeting documentation on the project wiki.

Issue Management Excellence

Systematically created 15+ well-structured parent-child issues from meeting notes in Week 1 (#217-232), establishing clear task hierarchy with appropriate labels, assignments, and categorization. Maintained consistent weekly personal reporting (#238, #278, #336, #390).

Physical Collaboration

Organized in-person meeting with team member Erdem to review and resolve deployment issues from previous semester #231, demonstrating commitment to hands-on problem-solving. I met with frontend team in the CMPE Lounge in the Week-3's weekend and we implemented the features that I mentioned above. Also we met with entire team 1 day before 1st Milestone and worked long hours, handle the deployment problems and authentication problems with Mobile team collaboratively.

Strategic Pivot

Successfully transitioned from backend-focused role to active frontend development when team needs shifted, maintaining high-quality contributions across both domains. This flexibility was crucial for Milestone 1 success given the stable backend foundation from CMPE 352 and increased frontend workload.

Deployment Leadership

Took ownership of critical last-minute deployment challenges, coordinating across web and mobile platforms to ensure successful Milestone 1 demonstration. The authentication fix particularly required intensive collaborative debugging sessions with the mobile team.