RFC: Component Diagram

Dan Macpherson dmacpher at redhat.com
Thu Mar 15 05:43:52 UTC 2012


Hi guys,

Based upon Máirín's feedback, I put together a graphical version of Matt's image using Inkscape. See attached.

All comments and suggestions are welcome.

- Dan

----- Original Message -----
> Hi all,
> 
> I took a small detour from my regularly-scheduled tasks and took a
> quick
> stab at updating the component diagram for our site.
> 
> Right now, our wiki includes[1] a diagram that Chris Lalancette put
> together quite some time ago. It's helpful in understanding how the
> pieces fit together, but quite a lot has changed since then -- for
> example, we no longer use Condor or QMF.
> 
> My "rough draft" is available here:
> http://people.redhat.com/~mawagner/aeolus-components-v0.png
> 
> Graphics are obviously not my thing... The original .dia file is
> available[2]. It should probably end up in version control, but I
> wanted
> to get to something not-terrible before thinking about where to
> commit
> it.
> 
> Three things I struggled with:
> 
> a.) Where exactly to place Audrey. I haven't included it yet for fear
> of
> getting it wrong, but it should obviously end up on the diagram. I
> would
> love some feedback on where to place it and how to
> accurately-but-succinctly model interactions with it.
> 
> b.) How much detail to include. My goal was more to explain how the
> components fit together than to model the complete set of
> interactions,
> but I'm not sure where the line is between a high-level overview and
> something fully accurate. For example, should I represent that
> Factory
> pushes images to cloud providers itself? What about the use of OAuth
> between components? Should I show thin as a server for Conductor? I
> made
> a fair number of arbitrary decisions on how much to show, so please
> let
> me know where I should show more or less detail.
> 
> c.) Styling. I threw this together in Dia, and it's probably pretty
> apparent that I'm not a designer... I'd rather have something
> accurate
> than something pretty, but I'd also love to have something that isn't
> embarrassingly ugly. Is there a better tool, or some trick I need to
> learn?
> 
> -- Matt
> 
> [1]
> https://www.aeolusproject.org/redmine/projects/aeolus/wiki/Aeolus_Components
> 
> [2] http://people.redhat.com/~mawagner/aeolus.dia
> 
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