How to display tools with several quality dimensions ?

[vuillaut]

The technical developments that allow us to use the quality dimensions as segments of the TechRadar have raised a question for which I’d like your opinion.

Our JSON schema allows tools and services to have multiple qualityDimension. However, this isn’t possible in the markdown representation used by the Radar for graphical display.

Please let me know your thoughts on this.

[shraddha-bajare]

Thanks for raising this.
Adding my few cents on each options

1. This would work fine for tools where their primary dimension is a good representation of their overall quality, but it does not provide a complete picture.
2. This one I personally feel a good option, since it gives users a overall comprehensive view of tool’s capabilities, down side would be we might need to modify TEchRadar and also duplicate/multiple markdown files for same tool, but feels manageable.
3. This would work, if we are working one tools with only one focused quality area.

4. This is the best option if we have potential tools (with several dimensions) which can be grouped into logical groups. 



So for me, I am OK with option 2 and option 4 :))

From my side, I was thinking 🤔
How about we create quadrants with grouping the dimensions -> and these dimensions group we can make analysing tools with several dimensions.

[vuillaut]

How about we create quadrants with grouping the dimensions -> and these dimensions group we can make analysing tools with several dimensions.

The grouping would be completely independent of the tools and pre-determined, so there will always be a case not falling into a specific group and we would be back to the same issue. Plus we loose flexibility.

[shraddha-bajare]

true :(

[azza-max]

I think options 2 and 4 are the most appropriate.

For option 2 (duplicating the tool/service on the radar for each relevant dimension) we preserve the full JSON representation and provide a more complete view of each tool. However, we should add a visual style or a “multi-dimensional” label to clearly indicate that these are duplicates of the same tool (to see if that’s feasible on the current radar setup ?).

For option 4 (splitting tools/services into submodules) it maximizes visibility and provides more detailed information on the radar. However, it does require additional consideration, especially for tools where submodules are not clearly defined (expl: if a submodule could also enhance more than one dimension, how should that be handled?)

[vuillaut]

Thank you for your comments.
So a possible solution would be:

1. add a guideline in the curators guidelines to ask for splitting of tools into their submodules if that is possible and they have different quality dimensions
2. duplicate tools with several quality dimensions and add a tag multi-dimensional to filter these easily (also the tag will appear on the tool page). This behavior should be documented.

[shraddha-bajare]

Sounds reasonable to me 💯

[jmaassen]

agreed