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Joe Witt commented on NIFI-7782: -------------------------------- >From the attitude of the poster they are to be completely ignored. We dont >need people with an attitude like that in the community. The idea might be >great but we dont need the drama. Closing this > Visually distinct processors, _PLEASE_ > -------------------------------------- > > Key: NIFI-7782 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/NIFI-7782 > Project: Apache NiFi > Issue Type: Wish > Reporter: Joseph Kesselman > Priority: Major > > If you're going to insist upon reinventing flowcharts and beanboxes, please > learn the lessons those have to teach. One of the most important (outside of > "programmers hate them, for good reasons") is that if the visual > representation is to have any value at all it has to be _VISUAL_ – you need > to take full advantage of the medium to help convey the meaning of the > diagram. Rectangles that can at most be tagged with colors (and processor > groups don't even allow that) give us nothing to work with for understanding > the flow's actual operation. At the very least adopt the old flowcharting > conventions – cylinder for storage, diamond for decision, scroll for > print/report, and so on. Those would also help flows retain meaning when > we're scrolled out far enough that you've stopped displaying their text. -- This message was sent by Atlassian Jira (v8.3.4#803005)