Howdy,
Being the random dude that pushed for the status page in the wiki in the
first place I do have a few suggestion for improvements.
Right now the "status since" column is not very useful, and the table
does not give any visibility if a feature has "gone sour" over the
years. e.g. something that was ok in kernel 4.13 might have been working
great out of pure luck, and may not be recommended to use at all.
Instead of tracking every single kernel release I think it would have
been good if the status page can focus on the current kernel and the
last n LTS kernels
I took the liberty of firing up SeaMonkey's composer and did a 10 minute
(ugly) mockup of my suggestion which can be found here:
http://www.dirtcellar.net/test/BTRFS_alt_status_suggestion.html
For those with URLophobia it essentially is all about trying to
restructure things a bit - so I am thinking along the lines of something
like shown below in this mail.
I think something along the lines of what I am suggesting here would
make it easier to decide if you want to try out things or not -
especially if you are on a older kernel and not bleeding edge.
Legend:
- Stability tags
* [0] = [Green] OK (no known bugs)
* [1] = [Yellow] OK mostly (some non fatal issues)
* [2] = [Orange] RISKY (some non-fatal bugs, minimally tested features)
* [X] = [Red] UNSTABLE (bugs that may ruin the filesystem)
- Other tags
* [P] = [Purple] PERFORMANCE problems - see notes
* [L] = [Blue] LAYERING issue - see notes
+--------------------+----------+---------+-----------------
| Feature | LTS 4.19 | LTS 5.4 | Current | Notes
+--------------------+----------+---------+-------------
| Magic feature X | [X] | [1] | [0] | #1
| Super feature Y | [2][P] | [1][P] | [0][P] | #2
| Amazing function Z | [2][L] | [0] | [0] | #3
Note
1)
Blah blah
2)
Yada yada
3)
Meh meh...
