Re: [oc] project browser

["Rohit Mathur" <rmathur@binghamton.edu>]

Hi Klaus,

Your suggestions are great. I at least suggest the use uf sub categories. It
makes it easier to find any project.

Secondly, I have my own web page hosted at lycos.com. I can use the web
space  I have spare to upload your web space suggestions (With due credit to
you of course) to my webpage (www.mathurrohit.com) for others to look at.

Regards

Rohit
----- Original Message -----
From: "Leiss, Klaus-Guenter 3188 S-PP-RD-E2"
<Klaus-Guenter.Leiss@de.heidelberg.com>
To: "Cores (E-mail)" <cores@opencores.org>
Sent: Monday, June 17, 2002 07:01
Subject: Re: [oc] project browser


> Hello,
> I would like to resurrect a theme from some time ago.
> Some people ( including me ) found the projects page
> not clear enough. I and others made some suggestions
> for an improved projects page. Since nothing happened
> from then on, I thought, if you want something to move,
> start to push it.
>
> So I will try make summarize and make a design for this,
> out of the suggestions.
>
> Miha Lampret [mlampret@opencores.org] suggested that the
> project page would only contain the categories and under the
> categories there would be the relevant Information. I would
> second this and suggest when the categories had subcategories
> to list them also on the projects page. To me this means, if
> a category can divided in subcategories, we should do it.
> e.g.
>
>  cpus
>   8051 like cpus
>   mips like cpus
>
> I would suggested that on the projects page should
> only be active projects, here I mean either active developed
> or finished. An active developed project should have at least
> a meaningful project page ( some kind of description and
> status ). It would cease to be an active project if either
> the maintainer explicitly declares it or there is a period
> of inactivity in an unfinished project. Then it should
> moved to something like a graveyard, where it could sometime
> later be resurrected if somebody finds it worthwhile.
>
> On the categories pages the individual projects should at least
> have the following information.
>   1. Status ( in Form of a colour coded Progress Bar)
>      I would suggest to start with some colour for a new
>      project and change gradually to another for a completed
>      project. If the project is tested and has complete information
>      it changes colour again. In my sample icons I started with
>      red for a new project and going to yellow for a project in
>      alpha state, and than change to green for an mature project.
>      I have used 5 steps 20%, 40%, 60%, 80% and 100%. I think
>      that the maintainer should set the status for all but the last
>      stage. Here somebody not from the project should check if the
>      documentation is reasonably complete.
>
>   2. SoC Bus Icon ( None, Wishbone, Amba )
>      If none we would place an placeholder Icon, so that the
>      columns would be still aligned.
>
>   3. Implementation Language ( VHDL, Verilog, SystemC etc. )
>
> For this 3 points I have made some Icons.
>
> In a first step I suggest that the existing projects page would be
> modified to contain this information through the icons and later
> the subcategories build if time and interest permits.
>
> I have done a small test web page where one could see what it would look
> like. But since I have no web server I could either mail it to the list,
> the zip archive is approximately 5KB big, or mail it to somebody who could
> put it up on the web for the others to look.
>
> With kind regards
>
> Klaus Leiss
>
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