Distinguishable AppIcon

[edwardgalligan]

I currently have both Patchwork and Patchbay installed (interested in testing out both), but they're impossible to distinguish since they both have the same icon.

I'm not sure if Patchwork, Patchbay or both clients should change their icons but certainly they should be distinguishable from eachother.

[christianbundy]

Maybe we could just do a simple hue rotation to match the Patchbay UI colors? Here's a quick render, because we have to start somewhere:

[edwardgalligan]

Maybe we could just do a simple hue rotation to match the Patchbay UI colors? Here's a quick render, because we have to start somewhere:

This is a great idea in theory, but looking at the output, I think the change is still too subtle.

match the Patchbay UI colors

I wasn't really aware Patchbay had UI colours to speak of... With that in mind, I threw together:

or

Alternatively, some take on the original greens: https://github.com/ssbc/patchwork-icons/blob/master/hermies/icon.svg

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[edwardgalligan]

Apologies if this comment is off-topic, but I've never understood how stalebot as a concept benefits projects. Why close valid tasks, regardless of levels of activity?

If it's only tagging issues for manual inspection (as it's done sofar), that does seem useful.

[christianbundy]

If you're on SSB, I'd love to discuss this on %jn8ZQC3f6gCyuZFpA3uBNF5Nw6/LtXVYwpzV1sko6OA=.sha256, but I can summarize my [personal] thoughts here as well.

From the Stale readme:

Is closing stale issues really a good idea?

In an ideal world with infinite resources, there would be no need for this app.

But in any successful software project, there's always more work to do than people to do it. As more and more work piles up, it becomes paralyzing. Just making decisions about what work should and shouldn't get done can exhaust all available resources. In the experience of the maintainers of this app—and the hundreds of other projects and organizations that use it—focusing on issues that are actively affecting humans is an effective method for prioritizing work.

To some, a robot trying to close stale issues may seem inhospitable or offensive to contributors. But the alternative is to disrespect them by setting false expectations and implicitly ignoring their work. This app makes it explicit: if work is not progressing, then it's stale. A comment is all it takes to keep the conversation alive.

We currently have about 600 open issues, almost all of which haven't seen activity in months and many of which haven't seen activity in years. There's a large asymmetry in the amount of effort required to open an issue versus the amount of effort to confidently close an issue as resolved, which means that we'll continue to accumulate a backlog of inactive (and often already-resolved) issues that developers will learn to ignore.

There are so many issues under the SSBC org that I personally don't even check our backlog, so the only issues that get noticed are new issues, because we get notifications for them. Personally, that seems like a bad plan. Developers become stressed by the backlog, users with goals and needs can't get our attention, and the backlog ends up looking more like a graveyard than a todo list.

With that said, I'd love to see this issue resolved. Would you be comfortable posting about this on SSB and asking for feedback? I might tag the #patchbay and #patchbay-dev channels to make sure all of the relevant folks can see it.

[edwardgalligan]

Thanks for the full and detailed @christianbundy. I'll be honest, I strongly and fundamentally disagree with the logic posed in the Stale readme, but—as I alluded to already above—this probably isn't the best place to chat about that, so I'll check out that SSB thread.

I'll also throw something about this issue up on SSB separately.

[edwardgalligan]

For posterity, further discussion on this here

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[aadilayub]

I'd like to contribute to this (I could mock something up in Figma). Does anyone have suggestions for what concept/object could be used to represent patchbay as an icon? A boat? A web?

Maybe knowing a bit about the etymology of patchbay could help here.

[aadilayub]

Linking this relevant ssb thread