Some feedback

[Joachim Breitner]

Hi,

Am Dienstag, den 25.06.2013, 12:27 +0100 schrieb Waldir Pimenta:

> Hmmm... I'm no sure that would be more intuitive. Wouldn't that end up
> doing the reverse (making arbtt-stats behave like arbtt-dump)? Mind
> you, I'm not sure that's necessarily a bad thing, just saying. In the
> end, I guess both utilities converge; that is, they might be seen as
> representing two extremes of a spectrum between a full, raw dump and a
> fully processed output; something like this: arbtt-dump --> arbtt-dump
> --last --> arbtt-dump --format --> arbtt-dump --filter (or arbtt-stats
> --dump) --> arbtt-stats. Does that make any sense? And if so, do you
> have any ideas about what should be the overarching strategy moving
> forward?

I guess this needs some more pondering. Also, so far I have not seen a
real need for dumping with tags, maybe I’ll just wait for a bit more.


>         Oh, an idea for the homepage: A section testimonials, where users (like
>         you ;-)) describe in one short paragraph what they use arbtt for and if
>         they have found something interesting.
> 
> 
> I see what you mean, but "testimonials" sounds a little "corporate" to
> me (like we're trying to sell something!).

There is nothing wrong with advertising good software, corporate or not.
Of course, the testimonial should be genuine and not crafted by some PR
department :-)

> Do you think the quickstart section of the "usage" tab could serve for
> that purpose, by including more common usage patterns? For example, I
> recall seeing in the mailing list someone asking for time-based
> filtering, which, IIRC, was later integrated into arbtt-stats.

Or maybe a separate „Examples“ section, similar to the Screenshots
sections of more visually-oriented projects.

> I do, however, think we could include a little about arbtt's history,
> perhaps as an introductory paragraph in the "get involved" page, to
> allow people to understand who's behind the project. I was thinking
> something like "arbtt was created in 2009 by Joachim Breitner
> (nomeata) <link to the blog post that introduced arbtt> and as it
> developed over the years, it also received contributions by several of
> its users (here, perhaps link to the contributors section of the
> docs)". What do you think?

Good idea; I added a history and credits section there.

Greetings,
Joachim


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