node.js version badges

[dougwilson]

since the version badges are not an official service (perhaps someone might get shields.io to add it, ehh?), i thought i would put down the different ones with there colors here:

with 0.8 or lower being bright green, 0.10 being green and 0.11 being orange for not the greatest support, haha. the numbers would all go up one with 0.12 comes out, so 0.10 would then be green, etc.

[rlidwka]

... or matching traffic lights...

// oldstable // stable // dev

PS: orange and red are too similar imho

[jonathanong]

i think @rlidwka 's colors make more sense. my only issue is that 0.10 is so old it should be considered two versions. 0.10 should be green and 0.8 should be really really green. hahaha

[dougwilson]

this is what it looks like:

[jonathanong]

is your computer colorblind?

[jonathanong]

or are we considering people with colorblindness? or am i just confused...

[dougwilson]

oops, i mean to type "... to colorblind people" ;) i usually try to avoid the whole green/red duality for them haha

[dougwilson]

really, it doesn't matter :) my idea was just to try and be like the badge to the left (npm version badge), but i guess eh

[yoshuawuyts]

I find these colors to be a little confusing. As a user I'd expect:

• Green means it's stable / good to use
• Red means I shouldn't use it.

e.g. Maybe it's a good idea to indicate unstable releases with red and stable releases with green? Orange, purple and fifty shades of yellow aren't intuitively clear.

[jonathanong]

make any stable version green and any unstable version red? make 0.8 greener?

[rlidwka]

Green means it's stable / good to use Red means I shouldn't use it.

By your definition we should make anything green. No point publishing something if you don't want people to use it, right?

So I'd suggest to redefine colors this way:

• Green means "feel free to use it and report bugs if you see them"
• Red means "feel free to use it and report bugs when you see them"

[jonathanong]

yeah, it's not like we're goign to have >= 0.11 modules ever. let's just make everything green lol

[Fishrock123]

So I'd suggest to redefine colors this way:

• Green means "feel free to use it and report bugs if you see them"
• Red means "feel free to use it and report bugs when you see them"

I feel no one will understand that. Dx

Also, no one might actually care.

[dougwilson]

OK everyone, I updated the original post. How does that look to everyone?

[Fishrock123]

Seems good to me.

[jonathanong]

what about 0.6? can we make it even greeeener for mime-db? hahaha

[Fishrock123]

meh

[dougwilson]

lol. You just want to feel special, don't you :)? Because of your dev dependencies we can't actually run it in 0.6 on Travis, haha

[jonathanong]

i'm liking the different shades of green we have now. close?