Hi, I thought I'd sent out this mail, but apparently I did that when I had just reinstalled my laptop and the mailsetup wasn't working yet. Sorry about that. Now almost a month ago, I asked Don Armstrong to create architecture tags in the BTS. I've always felt that such a thing would be useful, because often porters are unaware of architecture-specific bugs, simply because there's no way in the BTS to actually search for them. Having such an ability could make porters of a particular architecture aware of the issues that affect their architecture, and (where necessary) able to help out. Don suggested using usertags instead, since it is the policy of the maintainers of the BTS to not create new 'regular' tags anymore unless a usertag is in common use already. That's fine with me, but it has one tiny little problem: if people are unaware of the usertag, they cannot add it to their bugs, thereby defeating the purpose of this whole exercise (allowing porters to find architecture-specific bugs that they are unaware of). This mail is to remedy that one tiny little problem. I made a small proposal on the debian porters' mailinglists, which did not encounter any resistance (apart from the fact that some architectures already have a (set of) usertags that they use). It is as follows: - The user to an architecture usertag should be the porters' mailinglist for that particular architecture. That is, debian-powerpc@lists.debian.org for powerpc-related bugs, debian-armel@lists.debian.org for arm and armel-related bugs, and so on. - The usertag should be the name of the architecture: m68k for m68k, powerpc for powerpc, hurd-i386 for hurd-i386, and so on (that's not hard, is it? ;-) I made a short overview of this on the wiki, at http://wiki.debian.org/Teams/Debbugs/ArchchitectureTags (with permission from Don to write something in the /Teams/Debbugs namespace) Maintainers are hereby encouraged to use these usertags on any architecture-specific bugs they might have on their packages. -- <Lo-lan-do> Home is where you have to wash the dishes. -- #debian-devel, Freenode, 2004-09-22
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