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A set of SVG badges to mark your modules with the Node stability index
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Work In Progress badge #4

Open dy opened 8 years ago

dy commented 8 years ago

Hi @hughsk!

I always use these labels, but one badge I oftentimes find needed but absent here is work in progress badge. Factually that is a status of project, indicating that it is too early to use it.

What are thoughts about that?

Thanks.

dy commented 8 years ago

Yeah, now I do like that. I hoped it may become a more recognizable status badge, because factually it is.

Potherca commented 7 years ago

This might merely be a difference in definitions, but why not use "Experimental" or "Unstable" for "work-in-progress"?

To me they would both indicate "too early to use"...

dy commented 7 years ago

@Potherca the difference is that WIP oftentimes is not ready to be used and going to be finished, like under construction, whereas experimental is proof of concept, i. e. finished to some extent. For example font-atlas is finished but experimental, whereas audio is work in progress - not ready to be used at all, but planning to be somewhat stable.

Potherca commented 7 years ago

@dfcreative Thanks for elaborating! I can see the difference between "WIP" and "Experimental". I still have trouble grokking the difference between "WIP" and "Unstable".

To quote Robert Burns:

The best laid schemes o’ Mice an’ Men Gang aft agley

In other words, regardless whether a project might at some point become stable, while work is underway it is not stable.

To my mind, WIP = Unstable (Although not all Unstable project are necessarily WIP). It might just boil down to my perspective that "Unstable" expresses the intent to (someday) become "Stable".

(I hope you don't mind my attempt to better understand the difference. Project life-cycle/stages is a topic that genuinely fascinate me. Enough to have made my own attempt at a definition).