Hi, Am Montag, den 25.04.2016, 13:54 +0000 schrieb Simon Peyton Jones:
Generally, UI that needs extensive documentation is bad UI. So if the interface is confusing, gipeda needs to be improved (and may it be with “title” tags that explain the fields). If there are concrete issues with the page, let me know, and I’ll try to improve the interface.
Well that's a great aspiration, but it is a hard one to deliver on. I am completely flummoxed by almost every element of the current page. (And not just this UI, but many others.)
And I am repeatedly flummoxed by your vocabularly; always a joy :-)
* Nothing says what the baseline is; your email specifically says that you have changed the baseline
To take the first line of the "Branches" section
[..]
I'm short, I'm lost. I need a little page with an example and explanations of each element.
Hmm, I see your point. But since I did not see it originally, maybe I’m not the right person to describe the UI – after all, I’m heavily biased by having it created in the first place. Are there volunteers that that would enjoy creating a user-oriented documentation for gipeda? (Probably not in the form of a detached wiki page, but a help page linked from https://perf.haskell.org/ghc directly.) Until then, allow me to briefly answer your questions:
* What does "2 days ago" mean?
The age of the latest commit to the branch.
* What does "3 commit to cb300e" mean?
That this branch contains 3 commits relative to master, and that the final commit on the branch is cb300e. These are two links with tooltips: The first one says „Compare against merge base“, which will take you to a comparison page between the base commit and the latest commit on the branch. The second one says „Show branch tip“, will will take you to that revisions’ usual results view, which is relative to its parent.
* What does 276 mean
Number of benchmarks taken. I’m considering to remove this bit of information here, it is not really interesting.
* What does the little histogram mean * What does 0+0- mean?
Number of improvements (+) and regressions (-). In the per-branch-list is against the merge base, in the commit list it is against the commit’s parent. If you hover, you’ll see a list of changes (if there are any). Greetings, Joachim -- Joachim “nomeata” Breitner mail@joachim-breitner.de • https://www.joachim-breitner.de/ XMPP: nomeata@joachim-breitner.de • OpenPGP-Key: 0xF0FBF51F Debian Developer: nomeata@debian.org