Much Nicer. Obviously this is still missing labels, but once those are put in, it looks like it could be a winner.

Although, I'm not so sure about that font...maybe a touch bigger? Now that I think about it, I'm not sure *what* I don't like about it. Overall, the thicker lines make it look better, a lot easier to find the red.

Also, good news about 1.8a1

Also, (sorry for double post--just noticed) the first two links of your entry link back to http://weblogs.mozillazine.org/asa/ rather than the ftp site and the release notes (I assume thats what you intended to link to)

You can get 1.8a1 here, along with the Release notes and changelog.

I like it--but I'll like it better after you thicken the lines (so good thinking), as I'm partially colorblind and can't see in this image the difference between red and black. But with thicker lines, I probably would.

I'm partially colorblind too and finding difference between red and black lines is still difficult. Why you need so thin lines and what is problem to use thicker lines?

BTW should be pixel width of one week smaller?

I was one of those semi-colorblind people who complained about the red not being distinctive. This is a definite improvement. Thanks Asa.

I don't care how it looks, all I care about is that it's up-to-date. Why is this graphic on the roadmap page at mozilla.org always lagging behind the current state of things?

Couple of quick notes before I rush off to work:

Could the vertical 'branching' lines be made thicker, to distinguish then from the 'ticks' marking off a release?

One commenter in a prior posting mentioned that the diagram should look more like a tree - in this case, placing the 1.8 branch under the HEAD branch. I think that might look clearer, too.

Could you make the font slightly bolder and/or antialiased? It looks a bit anemic.

Are there deliberately no dates on the diagram, or have you just not got round to including them?

The color combination giving the greatest signaling is black+yellow. And supposedly even among the colorblind, there'd be only few having problems with that combination. So my suggestion would be to make the lines just a little wider (maybe one or two additional pixels), then use a yellow shade (or maybe even the light brown used on mozilla.org) instead of the red and - and this is important, contrast-wise - draw those 'managed paths' leaving one pixel of black on both sides.
You could well leave the vertical branches as thin as they are now, but I wouldn't color them at all (i.e. leave them black)
A side-effect might even be that the whole thing looks like a system of roads - this is a roadmap after all, isn't it? ;-)

I was going to say the exact same thing about the colorblindness. I'm also colorblind and can barely see the difference in color.

It's a definite improvement for me over the micro-line version. I agree that a bit bigger font would be nice given that there's room for it.

The Gimp (v2) has a really useful Display Filters dialog (off the View menu) that allows you to simulate being colour blind. Certainly under the red and green insensitvity filters the red line becomes a lot less obvious.

Caution: rant!

Asa:
What is the point of advertizing a totally broken junk filter in the release notes?
(or even of releasing it while the fix is already reviewed).
It won't make people inclined to us Mozilla mail when they recognize that most of their private mail is classified as junk by the "improved" junk filter and training the filter does not help? (bug 243680/bug 193625)

And I'm not sure the status of bug 242856 is/was that clear yet, so this release seems quite a bit hastily to me. Especially when considering that alpha was originally planned for 24-May-2004 and the roadmap change was only announced 1-2 days ago.
Even the freeze was shortened from anticipated five days to merely 1-2 days, not enough to be of any use wrt stabilizing and blocker-fixing from it (e.g. look at topcrash bug 243757, also having a patch already).
So you got what you deserved, namely imo the poorest-quality release since at least Mozilla 1.2.
Yes, it's alpha1, but people are supposed to use it, or what's the point of a release?

Hi,
Not good.
I like the old one better.
Pleasew bring it back.

I still like the older, bolder versions better. They convey the information more quickly and clearly.

Image looks a little better, but I still would play with the shade of red at Vischeck for the color blind folks.

Could the weekly rules be a little darker grey? They're almost invisible against the white on my brand-new-but-horribly-low-contrast Latitude D600 display. They look fine on an LCD of better quality/contrast.

Um.. I'm still partial to the old style at http://www.mozilla.org/roadmap/branching-15-Feb-2002.png

The lines are wider.. helps make the red more easier to follow, and easier to read for those that are visually impared...

A 2-3 pixel line may be ok for a lot of people... but I don't see how it's better than the old style.

*hugs*