ER: Changing the "Rebooting" project status color

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Assessment

Difficulty
2/5
Estimated time
1-3 hours
Newbie friendliness
75/100
Issue type
Feature
Clarity
Mostly clear
Activity status
Active
Tech stack
docker, jekyll, scss
Domain
design, frontend

Research direction

Start in _sass/variables/_colors.scss and add the proposed lavender variable under the Violets heading. Then find the status-Rebooting style rules (the repo code search linked in the issue) and point their background-color at the new variable. Done when the Rebooting label shows the new color on the homepage, projects page and a project page, checked by running the site in Docker with a test project set to Rebooting.

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Description

Complexity: Small ER Feature: Refactor CSS Issue Making: Level 2 P-Feature: Projects page ready for merge team role: front end size: 0.25pt
Emergent Requirement - Problem

We need to change the color of the "Rebooting" project status label to differentiate it from the "Completed" status.

Issue you discovered this emergent requirement in
  • #8776
Date discovered

Oct 26, 2026

Did you have to do something temporarily
  • YES
  • NO
Who was involved

@yielderdev
@daras-cu
@ExperimentsInHonesty

What happens if this is not addressed

Both "Rebooting" and "Completed" projects will have similar light blue labels on their project cards, making them harder to differentiate.

Resources
  • Project statuses appear on the following pages: Homepage, Projects Page, and individual project pages, e.g. 311 Data
  • File where all color variables are defined: _sass/variables/_colors.scss
  • Files where color is assigned for the Rebooting status class: Files
  • Example of project cards on the homepage/projects page with "Completed" status in blue:
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Potential solutions [draft]
  • In _sass/variables/_colors.scss add the color #E5D4FF as color-lavender under the Violets heading. Result:
// Violets
$color-blueviolet: #571DD1;
$color-redpurple: #8e1737;
$color-darkorchid: #981DD1;
$color-lavender: #E5D4FF;
  • In each of the files containing styles for the 'status-Rebooting' class, change the background-color to the new $color-lavender.
To test:
  • Create a second test branch and manually change one of the projects' status to "Rebooting" in the MD file (e.g. for 311 Data: _projects/311-data.md). Run the site in Docker to confirm that the Rebooting label shows with the correct color on the homepage, projects page, and the individual project page.
  • Push the test branch to your fork of the website repo on GitHub. Make sure you open the PR from your original working branch without the test changes, but include a link to the test branch and testing instructions for reviewers in the PR text.
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