I just took a look at the Drat gui that was recently released at http://drat-vm.apache.org:8080/proteus-new/
Here are some comments. Apologies if these are pretty frank, but please just look at them at observations. They may be helpful. Or not. They may be ill-informed, but naive eyes are always helpful in my experience. So ... 1) I couldn't understand a lot of the visualizations because I don't share enough vocabulary. Some mouse-over hints and definitions would really help newbies like me. 2) the page seems to refresh pretty often. That makes it really hard to examine the visualizations. It would be much better to either let me do my own refreshes or to use a websockets update to avoid big jumps. 3) Does a mime type that contains the word java correspond to java source code? Why is it a mime type instead of a file type? 4) There are lots and lots of sub-projects. It would help to have some sort of folding display so I could unfold, for example, accumulo to get to all the pieces underneath 5) There are lots of mapr projects. It would help a lot to have some kind of nav ... an alphabet .. a search bar 6) the main page kind of blinks between formats. Why? [image: image.png] [image: image.png] 7) the audit page has bar charts. What are they? Why is this called audit? 8) audits usually find some bad stuff. There is usually lots of not bad stuff and so we need a way to filter down to interesting stuff (namely stuff we need to fix). It would be nice to be able to hide things that are all OK. 9) the green bars in the bar charts are "Standards". What does that mean? What does the length of the bar represent? 10) there is a huge dynamic range in the bar charts. Is there a better way to show the size of the little bars? Maybe a log scale?
