Hey Ted,
I wanted to give you a more detailed reply to your great feedback. Here goes: From: Ted Dunning <ted.dunn...@gmail.com> Reply-To: "dev@drat.apache.org" <dev@drat.apache.org> Date: Thursday, August 23, 2018 at 11:54 AM To: "dev@drat.apache.org" <dev@drat.apache.org> Subject: feedback on early gui 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 ... 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. https://github.com/apache/drat/issues/163 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. https://github.com/apache/drat/issues/164 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? See: https://www.iana.org/assignments/media-types/media-types.xhtml Mime type that contains java is java either in its primary type or sub type field. So since there are no primary types of “java”, but instead things like text/x-java-src, and things like it, then that’s why there are more than one acceptable type and since we tokenize the types, that’s where the question comes from I think. 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 https://github.com/apache/drat/issues/165 There are lots of mapr projects. It would help a lot to have some kind of nav ... an alphabet .. a search bar https://github.com/apache/drat/issues/166 the main page kind of blinks between formats. Why? This has to do with the page refreshing the projects chart a lot due to it being a way to see projects being analyzed in real time through the visualization. There is probably a way to cut down on this. https://github.com/apache/drat/issues/167 the audit page has bar charts. What are they? Why is this called audit? The bar charts are the license counts identified by RAT for each project analyzed. Because RAT performs an audit of our license repos and DRAT is a distributed, high performance, big-code way to call RAT on a lot of code. 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. Yes, maybe by default only show the “Unknown” license category or somehow highlight the Unknown license category in a better way: https://github.com/apache/drat/issues/168 the green bars in the bar charts are "Standards". What does that mean? What does the length of the bar represent? This is RAT terminology. Standards I understand are OSI approved licenses. The length of the bar means the number of files that are licensed using OSI licenses. 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? Good idea. https://github.com/apache/drat/issues/169 Thanks for all the feedback, Ted! Cheers, Chris
