Woops. I missed most of this thread in my last reply. I'm all for using open standard formats and versioning them. However. Not being a graphical artist myself, I have found the learning curve on some of those tools daunting, eg. inkscape, which means I'm far less likely to update a graphic in a format that requires me to go learn that tool first. Also, it's awkward to require a Python developer to update an SVG because that is "documentation" affected by their commit.
If we go with a common tool/format like libre office/ODF. I suggest we adopt some commonalities, and still keep things simple enough that we can reasonably expect any developer to update it. -D On May 12, 2015 12:33 PM, "Sean Dague" <s...@dague.net> wrote: > On 05/12/2015 01:12 PM, Jeremy Stanley wrote: > > On 2015-05-12 10:04:11 -0700 (-0700), Clint Byrum wrote: > >> It's a nice up side. However, as others have pointed out, it's only > >> capable of displaying the most basic pieces of the architecture. > >> > >> For higher level views with more components, I don't think ASCII art > >> can provide enough bandwidth to help as much as a vector diagram. > > > > Of course, simply a reminder that just because you have one or two > > complex diagram callouts in a document doesn't mean it's necessary > > to also go back and replace your simpler ASCII art diagrams with > > unintelligible (without rendering) SVG or Postscript or whatever. > > Doing so pointlessly alienates at least some fraction of readers. > > Sure, it's all about trade offs. > > But I believe that statement implicitly assumes that ascii art diagrams > do not alienate some fraction of readers. And I think that's a bad > assumption. > > If we all feel alienated every time anyone does anything that's not > exactly the way we would have done it, it's time to give up and pack it > in. :) This thread specifically mentioned source based image formats > that were internationally adopted open standards (w3c SVG, ISO ODG) that > have free software editors that exist in Windows, Mac, and Linux > (Inkscape and Open/LibreOffice). > > -Sean > > -- > Sean Dague > http://dague.net > > __________________________________________________________________________ > OpenStack Development Mailing List (not for usage questions) > Unsubscribe: openstack-dev-requ...@lists.openstack.org?subject:unsubscribe > http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openstack-dev >
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