[OpenStack-docs] Diagram recommendations for Openstack Contributor Guides

Matt Kassawara mkassawara at gmail.com
Fri May 13 12:36:23 UTC 2016


If you contribute diagrams, you'll quickly figure out that Inkscape is
difficult to use and produces rough content at best. If we want OpenStack
to appear more professional and less like a science experiment to our
increasingly less technical (read: decision makers) audience, we have to
use a tool that creates professional looking content. Some of the online
tools are surprisingly decent, so I wouldn't rule them out. Unfortunately,
regardless of what we use, we're never going to have standardized SVGs that
any online or installed tools can consistently parse.

On Fri, May 13, 2016 at 3:46 AM, Christian Berendt <christian at berendt.io>
wrote:

> On 13 May 2016 at 10:34:48, Shaun OMeara (shaun at omeara.co.za) wrote:
> > > Opensource
>
> With this requirement we are only able to use Inkscape, it is the only
> listed open source software.
>
> Omnigraffle, DrawSVG, and Lucidchart are not open sourced.
>
> I would prefer to not rely on hosted services like Lucidchart and DrawSVG.
> This way we are depending on the availability of a 3rd party service
> provider.
>
> Christian.
>
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> Christian Berendt
>
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