+1, I like the traffic light notion, and the colors and shapes Mike proposes will be recognized cross culturally and cross language as far as I know. (No need to bring up a weird counter example, but I would find it interesting for reasons unrelated to this discussion...)
On Tue, Aug 21, 2018 at 9:59 AM Mike Drob <[email protected]> wrote: > If we're doing traffic light style (which I think is a good idea) I would > ask that we also have distinct symbols instead of circles for everything. > Green check mark, Yellow caution sign, Red X seem relatively universal? > > On Tue, Aug 21, 2018 at 11:46 AM, Sean Busbey <[email protected]> wrote: > > > On Tue, Aug 21, 2018 at 11:32 AM, Josh Elser <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > > > > > On 8/21/18 12:22 PM, Sean Busbey wrote: > > >> > > >> I believe "NT" is already meant to cover the "NP" case. How can we > > >> rephrase it to better cover the meaning you want? > > > > > > > > > In my mind "not tested" isn't honest because we have many folks who > have > > > been doing testing on Hadoop 3.x versions. There is a very broad > spectrum > > > that is left up to the reader to discern, e.g. > > > > > > Not Tested: "we haven't done a full round of HBase-grade, > > > production-readiness testing" > > > Not Tested: "We don't know if HBase even compiles against that Hadoop > > > version" > > > > > > > > > That's fair. (But again Hadoop 3 versions aren't "NT", they're "red > > light". this is a direct result of folks doing testing.) > > > > There are even notes below the table that explain *why* those versions > > are "red light". I think we have an explanation note for anything > > marked X currently. > > > > >> if "S" and "F" are meant to mean "production ready" why don't we just > > >> make that status "production ready" and pick a symbol for it? (maybe a > > >> check mark since this is no longer a plain text document). > > > > > > > > > I really like Nick's suggestion about a Traffic Light: Green, Yellow, > > Red. > > > This would let us spend more time explaining the types of situations > that > > > would cause us to play some "cell" in that box (rather than make more > > values > > > to go in that box). > > > > > > What do you think about this? I would be happy to take this on. > > > > > > > > > Yeah, I like this idea because I think it's essentially what we were > > trying to get across in "S", "NT", "X" but traffic colors are easier > > to scan. > > > -- Best regards, Andrew Words like orphans lost among the crosstalk, meaning torn from truth's decrepit hands - A23, Crosstalk
