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Question: Is there a way to track technology history in BYOR like the official Thoughtworks Tech Radar?
Hello,
First of all, thank you for this open-source project! I'm currently helping implement a Tech Radar at my company, and we've been exploring Build Your Own Radar (BYOR).
I noticed that the official Thoughtworks Tech Radar allows users to track the history of each technology over time (e.g., changes in its position or ring). However, in BYOR, I couldn't find a similar feature at first glance.
I have a few questions regarding this:
Does BYOR currently support tracking historical changes of technologies within the radar? If so, how can this feature be used? If not, is there any plan to add this functionality to the open-source project? This feature would be highly valuable for us, as understanding how technologies evolve is crucial for decision-making.
Thanks in advance.
This currently isn't part of BYOR, but I implemented this in my fork by diffing the previous JSON datasets to calculate a blips movement over time.
Thanks for your response, @setchy! I also took a look at your project, and at first, I had a similar approach in mind. However, one of the requirements I received was to be able to see the history of a blip within the same radar, similar to what the official radar does. I’ll probably need to add this feature on my side since the open-source project doesn’t support it yet.
@will-amaral , do you think this is something that could be considered for the project?
@pteixeira15 Our team has limited capacity to work on new features at the moment and we still have to catch up with PRs and issues first, so I can't give you any promises.
Still, it's definitely a consideration, specially if there's already something to use as a base. We'll do our best to get it incorporated.
I apologize if the project hasn't gotten much traction lately, it's definitely on my radar (pun intended) to improve the relationship with the community.
I apologize if the project hasn't gotten much traction lately, it's definitely on my radar (pun intended) to improve the relationship with the community.
Happy to help here if I can @will-amaral 🙌
We would love this feature as well (we currently just have "archive" links to BYORs that load different JSON files) - please HMU if I can help in any way with making this happen.
