Change maturity level system

rust-lang / arewewebyet

Are we web yet? A simple reckoning of Rust's readiness for Web-related things.

https://www.arewewebyet.org/

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Change maturity level system #55

Open andradei opened 8 years ago

andradei commented 8 years ago

The symbols used to indicate stability and maturity are explained on

http://www.arewewebyet.org/about/ under the Understanding the level indicator section.

But it would be better if their meaning was more readily available on the front page (or throughout the site). Here are some suggestions:

A fixed view (a div perhaps) with the legend that is always available when navigating the site
Displaying the meaning of the symbol on hover anywhere it is displayed
A simpler level indicator code that is easier to understand without the need for explanation. Like just colors ranging from red to green. But not too many of them, maybe just
- Red: Not stable
- Yellow: Stable, but immature
- Green: Stable and ready for production

Anyways, thanks for curating the site. I use it often to check that status of Rust for web dev.

atg commented 7 years ago

Could the level indicators could be replaced with grades A+ A B C D E F? (keep the colours and tooltips obviously).

andradei commented 7 years ago

That is also a great idea. Anything that could improve readability of the status sigils.

sphenlee commented 4 years ago

I know this issue is almost 4 years old but I just wanted to add that the "not yet stable", "unstable/incomplete" and "barely there" icons are not great for colourblindness. They are all the same shape, and different shades of green/yellow/orange (I think...) The icons are also very small which makes it even harder to distinguish them.

ibaryshnikov commented 4 years ago

I think It's pretty hard to determine the maturity of crates per topic by a single person. It looks like a more suitable task for a survey similar to https://blog.rust-lang.org/2020/04/17/Rust-survey-2019.html. Te maturity of crates is also variable depending on your needs. I'd suggest to remove icons at all.

What do others think?

ibraheemdev commented 3 years ago

I think we should keep some form of the legend symbols. It is true that it is hard for a single person to determine the maturity of crates. I think a simpler system would make it easier to understand, judge, and maintain. I am thinking something like this: Screen Shot 2020-11-23 at 4 43 39 PM