[openstack-dev] [nova][all] Architecture Diagrams in ascii art?

Huang Zhiteng winston.d at gmail.com
Tue May 12 09:40:04 UTC 2015


On Tue, May 12, 2015 at 5:22 PM, Thierry Carrez <thierry at openstack.org>
wrote:

> John Garbutt wrote:
> > On 11 May 2015 at 23:46, Boris Pavlovic <boris at pavlovic.me> wrote:
> >>> Couldn't we just use real image files to do this. IIRC, gerrit supports
> >>> displaying image files which are included in a commit. For example,
> I've
> >>> been
> >>> planning to copy these images:
> >>
> >> +1 for real images
> >
> > One suggestion I remember around specs was we might want a separate
> > repo to contain the images, to stop massively increasing the git clone
> > times.
>
> Also like Matt mentioned, images can't be easily modified. As time
> passes by, that usually results in stale information as people don't go
> through the hassle of completely redoing the image to update the
> information in it. That makes them fine for shiny one-time
> presentations, but inadequate for long-term technical docs.
>
> For those I really prefer to optimize for accuracy than for prettiness,
> so ascii art, or blockdiag, or anything we can easily share the source
> of, is to be preferred to raw images.
>
+1 for ascii art.

>
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> Thierry Carrez (ttx)
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Huang Zhiteng
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