Road map of major updates

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Starting this mostly to write down a working order of updates I'd like to do (or need to do to accomplish other updates), and also to open discussion about priorities.

• Move to turbo, stimulus, importmap Move to importmap, stimulus, turbo and adapt all current JS #1683
• Switch from uglifier to terser to compress js Switch js compression gem to terser from uglifier #1712
• Rails 7.0.8 Rails 7.0.8 #1584
• Ruby 3.2.2 upgrade to Ruby 3.2.2 #1715
• Rails 7.1.2 Rails 7.1.2 #1716
• turbo-rails v2.0 - enables deleting nearly all of our view and controller code relating to Turbo
  • Add plumbing for live "broadcast" updates Live comment updates with ActionCable #2107
• Standardize use of carousels, panels, icons and helpers app-wide, to simplify Bootstrap upgrade
  • Names#show
  • Locations#show
  • SpeciesList#show
  • Descriptions#show
• Layout - Modify top and left navbars towards "Bootstrap 4" design prototype (still using Bootstrap 3)
• Audit current color themes, fix inconsistencies and illegibility
• Write out explicit, detailed Bootstrap 3 variable translation files for each theme. 😵‍💫
• Migrate to a different icon library, necessary for BS4
• Bootstrap 4 update
  • Switch from sassc-rails to dartsass-sprockets to be able to compile more recent Bootstrap versions Switch to dartsass-sprockets for SCSS compilation #2050
  • Convert HTML and re-write the long color theme files
• Bootstrap 5 update.
  • Convert HTML and re-write the long color-theme files, again
• Migrate from sprockets to propshaft
  • Migrate from dartsass-sprockets to gem dartsass-rails (removes sprockets dependency) Switch to dartsass-rails and foreman, ./bin/dev #1975
  • Migrate from sprockets-rails to propshaft

Other updates not dependent on anything particular in the above road map

• Fix not-logged-in layouts Fix screwy logged-out layouts #1711
• Eliminate N+1s on Namings table
  • Observation show scopes - move to model, add strict_loading #1737
  • Naming modals/forms: Unique identifiers #1738
  • Add observation_id to naming & vote routes to help eager-loading #1740
  • Move the naming table from partials to a helper #1748
  • Remove N+1's from owner_naming_line #1752
  • NamingConsensus #1759
• Speed up User view somehow
• Attempt to make app thread-safe (session globals)
• install ViewComponents or Phlex and move partials and helpers for interactive images, carousels, matrix boxes and the naming table to components
  • Prepare for ViewComponents #1749
• Migrate CollapsibleCollectionOfObjects to being a flat collection of objects (not collapsed) for Google Maps API's MarkerClusterer - not possible with rectangles!
• Migrate Observation lat/lng data to Geometry data
• Migrate Location box data to Geometry data
• Convert Query class to use model scopes