Picking up where things left off in the VOTE thread on the subject, I'm presenting a revision to my original proposal below. I'd like to get this signed off on before submitting it for another vote. Otto, picking up where we left off, let me know if this looks good to you.
I'd like to propose a vote to change our dev guidelines which will clarify the tooling we use to produce diagrams and share the source files for those diagrams. The original discuss thread is noted at the end of this email. I propose the dev guidelines https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/METRON/Development+Guidelines and PR checklist https://github.com/apache/metron/blob/master/.github/PULL_REQUEST_TEMPLATE.md#for-documentation-related-changes be changed in the following ways: 1. Under "1.1 Contributing A Code Change" 1. Change <<"New features and significant bug fixes should be documented in the JIRA and appropriate architecture diagrams should be attached. Major features may require a vote.">> to <<"New features and significant bug fixes should be documented in the JIRA. Appropriate architecture diagrams should be created in https://www.draw.io/ and committed to source control as per section 2.4. Diagrams may be requested of PR submitters during review either as documentation or as an aid to the reviewer. Major features may also require a vote.">> 2. Under "2.4 Documentation" 1. New line item <<"Diagrams - We save architecture diagram source files in an xml format rendered by draw.io (instructions below). This is the free tool of choice that we've agreed to use for exchanging diagrams and their source files in Metron.">> 2. New line item <<Image and diagram source files belong in "<module-name>/images-source" and rendered diagrams and images belong in "<module-name>/images." 3. New subsection <<"Creating and Modifying Diagrams">>. This section would provide basic instructions for downloading source files from draw.io. 3. Add a new checkbox item under PR checklist heading "For documentation related changes" with the following text 1. Have you ensured that any documentation diagrams have been updated, along with their source files, using draw.io? See https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/METRON/Development+Guidelines for instructions. 4. Here is the Jira for migrating/redoing existing diagrams 1. https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/METRON-2099 - Original DISCUSS thread - https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/3ae02f1e32044b1a7648899700d44611aefdab6caa09fb3196292425@%3Cdev.metron.apache.org%3E - Original VOTE thread - https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/c41dca65a46354c161d58caa7c79cfac6758f437b6638d12bd5c5622@%3Cdev.metron.apache.org%3E
