[openstack-dev] Project Navigator Updates - Feedback Request

Andrea Frittoli andrea.frittoli at gmail.com
Sat Mar 25 06:03:52 UTC 2017


On Fri, 24 Mar 2017, 5:06 p.m. Lauren Sell, <lauren at openstack.org> wrote:

> Hi everyone,
>
> We’ve been talking for some time about updating the project navigator, and
> we have a draft ready to share for community feedback before we launch and
> publicize it. One of the big goals coming out of the joint TC/UC/Board
> meeting a few weeks ago[1] was to help better communicate ‘what is
> openstack?’ and this is one step in that direction.
>
> A few goals in mind for the redesign:
> - Represent all official, user-facing projects and deployment services in
> the navigator
> - Better categorize the projects by function in a way that makes sense to
> prospective users (this may evolve over time as we work on mapping the
> OpenStack landscape)
> - Help users understand which projects are mature and stable vs emerging
> - Highlight popular project sets and sample configurations based on
> different use cases to help users get started
>
> For a bit of context, we’re working to give each OpenStack official
> project a stronger platform as we think of OpenStack as a framework of
> composable infrastructure services that can be used individually or
> together as a powerful system. This includes the project mascots (so we in
> effect have logos to promote each component separately), updates to the
> project navigator, and bringing back the “project updates” track at the
> Summit to give each PTL/core team a chance to provide an update on their
> project roadmap (to be recorded and promoted in the project navigator among
> other places!).
>
> We want your feedback on the project navigator v2 before it launches.
> Please take a look at the current version on the staging site and provide
> feedback on this thread.
>
> http://devbranch.openstack.org/software/project-navigator/
>


I've tried the site on a mobile phone, overall it looks fine, but after
clicking on a project, the text in the project details table is not
readable.

>
>
> Please review the overall concept and the data and description for your
> project specifically. The data is primarily pulled from TC tags[2] and Ops
> tags[3]. You’ll notice some projects have more information available than
> others for various reasons. That’s one reason we decided to downplay the
> maturity metric for now and the data on some pages is hidden. If you think
> your project is missing data, please check out the repositories and submit
> changes or again respond to this thread.
>

Should Tempest / QA be in the list?


> Also know this will continue to evolve and we are open to feedback. As I
> mentioned, a team that formed at the joint strategy session a few weeks ago
> is tackling how we map OpenStack projects, which may be reflected in the
> categories. And I suspect we’ll continue to build out additional tags and
> better data sources to be incorporated.
>
> Thanks for your feedback and help.
>
> Best,
> Lauren
>
> [1]
> http://superuser.openstack.org/articles/community-leadership-charts-course-openstack/
> [2] https://governance.openstack.org/tc/reference/tags/
> [3] https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/Operations/Tags
>
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