#45 packaging process visual representation
Closed: Invalid None Opened 14 years ago by dtimms.

It would be nice to have some graphics built that represent a simplified overview of some complex fedora tasks to take the eye sting away from pages of text processes. An idea for the packaging process perhaps:

  • think of an oval football ground, where the viewer is standing at near the foci of one end. She sees a path curving from past left extent of vision, around to the right extent of vision. The viewpoint should be above the ground, and the perspective should be apparent.

The breakdown is shown as graphical items rising out of the path, perhaps with additional arrows to indicate flow of additional tasks / information:
{{{
- choose a software project
- start a template spec file
- gathering information
- understanding packaging guidelines
- configure local rpmbuild
- local build
- local rpmlint
- local package test (iteration over last few items)
- create package review bug
- - paths of new packagers taking tentative steps
- - paths of existing packagers indicating review of spec
- respond / improve package based on comments, iteration (circle)
- performing semi/reviews of other packages
- community approval of package
- cvs request / import
- build request (to successful build) iteration
- update system requests
- published package
- - bugs / feedback / updates iteration
}}}

Try to indicate the communication and community involvement during the stages.

I have no idea how you would represent in nice graphic form any of those items.
An image that fits into say 800x 600 (active content area for a 1024x768 display) could be a useful size, but might be too small for definition of any step icons to be usable.

? Can the wiki provide imagemap like links that could jump to the specific task detailed descriptions.


Hi David, is this request something you still need?

Hi Ryan, is this something you had a chance to work on or would still like to work on? Let me know. If not, we can free the ticket for someone else to pick up if you're too busy to take it on. (Or let's close out the ticket if you already finished.)

Thanks, ~m

triaged 6 Apr 2010; emailed David & Ryan for the 411. :)

Replying to [comment:2 duffy]:

Hi David, is this request something you still need?
'Need' is usually indicative of life/death survival.

The thing I noticed as a 2-3 year packager, who isn't doing it everyday, was that there is loads of pure textual information, little eye candy, on the wiki's packaging pages. I was hoping that either with an intro page graphic as described, or indeed smaller page / task specific graphics, the packaging process might become a little friendlier. I don't have the artistic talent to create such a thing, so it is really up to whether someone else sees this as a positive for the fedoraproject, and is willing to take it up - perhaps Ryan ?

Thanks for bumping this mo, i will keep this one.

David, maybe we can start by doing a very high-level overview of the process. (5 or 6 steps maybe).

thoughts?

cheers,
ryanlerch

Looping back on this. Has this gotten any better since this ticket was last touched? Is it something that is still needed?

cheers,
ryanlerch

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