On Sat, 30 Oct 2010 09:21:45 +0200 Mike Hommey wrote: > On Sat, Oct 30, 2010 at 12:10:43AM +0200, Francesco Poli wrote: > > On Thu, 28 Oct 2010 16:49:00 +0200 Mike Hommey wrote: [...] > > > Tried to set all of the above on the new graphs on > > > http://qa.debian.org/data/bts/graphs > > > > They look fairly nice, IMHO. > > > > I am still wondering why the old graphs (the ones currently on > > http://people.debian.org/~glandium/bts ) seem to be still smarter with > > respect to the y-axis grid. > > > > I mean: the old graphs seem to almost always guess optimal y-axis grid > > lines and labels, while the new graphs look nice but not optimal... > > Would you have examples of such optimal vs. suboptimal graphs ?
Here we go: let the old graphs (the one currently linked from the PTS) be named "old", the previous experimental graphs be named "test-0", and the current experimental graphs be named "test-1". Hence, we have the following general naming scheme: old http://people.debian.org/~glandium/bts/ test-0 http://merkel.debian.org/~glandium/bts/ test-1 http://qa.debian.org/data/bts/ With this naming convention, I will comment on some examples, with respect to one feature *only*, that is to say, number and placement of horizontal grid lines and y-axis numeric labels. Needless to say, as far as *all* other features are concerned, I think that test-1 graphs are better than the other two, as I've already stated previously... Examples: old http://people.debian.org/~glandium/bts/a/apt-listbugs.png test-0 http://merkel.debian.org/~glandium/bts/a/apt-listbugs.png test-1 http://qa.debian.org/data/bts/graphs/a/apt-listbugs.png * old numeric labels are well chosen and old grid lines are good * test-0 numeric labels are well chosen, but test-0 grid lines are too many * test-1 numeric labels and grid lines are too few old http://people.debian.org/~glandium/bts/a/aptitude.png test-0 http://merkel.debian.org/~glandium/bts/a/aptitude.png test-1 http://qa.debian.org/data/bts/graphs/a/aptitude.png * numeric labels are well chosen for all of the three versions * old and test-0 grid lines are OK, but test-1 grid lines are too few old http://people.debian.org/~glandium/bts/d/dput.png test-0 http://merkel.debian.org/~glandium/bts/d/dput.png test-1 http://qa.debian.org/data/bts/graphs/d/dput.png * old and test-1 numeric labels and grid lines seem to be reasonable * test-0 has maybe a bit too many labels and lines... old http://people.debian.org/~glandium/bts/r/rpncalc.png test-0 http://merkel.debian.org/~glandium/bts/r/rpncalc.png test-1 http://qa.debian.org/data/bts/graphs/r/rpncalc.png * old and test-0 make not much sense, since a package cannot have, say, 1.6 bugs (hence it's not really useful to have labels or lines for fractions of a bug) * test-1 is better in this case, since it has meaningful labels, even though grid lines are too many old http://people.debian.org/~glandium/bts/w/wnpp.png test-0 http://merkel.debian.org/~glandium/bts/w/wnpp.png test-1 http://qa.debian.org/data/bts/graphs/w/wnpp.png * test-0 is hard to read (too many labels and grid lines), even though it makes perfectly sense * old and test-1 are similar (even though I slightly prefer test-1) and are easier to read Well, I could go on, but I think the above examples are enough to get the big picture. After all, "test-1" is not bad and compares well with "old". The only version I don't like is "test-0". In summary, I think that test-1 could be considered OK, unless we manage to find a way to further enhance the result... > > > Have you tried to remove the "-Y also known as --alt-y-grid" option > > and see the default result? > > The graphs on merkel are without -Y. > (http://merkel.debian.org/~glandium/bts/) OK, as I said above, I don't like the result, so let's forget about removing the -Y option, unless we find some other, better, option! ;-) -- http://www.inventati.org/frx/progs/scripts/pdebuild-hooks.html Need some pdebuild hook scripts? ..................................................... Francesco Poli . GnuPG key fpr == C979 F34B 27CE 5CD8 DC12 31B5 78F4 279B DD6D FCF4
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