On Sun, Sep 26, 2004 at 12:49:13AM +0200, Enrico Zini wrote: > > * Discuss the idea of "Adopting" tags, that is having people who > > take care of the correctness of the list of packages associated to > > a given tag (which another point of view compared to checking that > > all tags associated to a package are correct) (Suggested by Erich > > Schubert) > This would be a really effective idea for having quality assurance. > Another powerful way to quality assurance is having package managers > which use tags, so that inconsistencies can be spotted and signaled in > everyday life. > > * Discuss the idea of "Outsourcing" the maintenance of some tags: > > for example the Gnome and KDE people could take care of > > maintaining the tag data related to Gnome and KDE. > Here the idea of facets helps, as different groups could take care of > facets related to areas they know better. For example, the Agnula > people have volunteered to maintain the "sound" facet. In debian we have several sub-communities related to various efforts of the project. The first ones that comes in to my mind are those involved in maintaining packages related to a given programming language. Just looking at the debian maling lists list reveals perl, python, ocaml communities and many more. It would be a good idea to "assign" (of course someone needs to volunteer, but ok ... you get the idea) the maintanance of communities related tags to the communities themselves. I volunteer to maintain to maintain the tags related to the ocaml programming language. (BTW, I already tried twice in the past to mail the debian-usability project on the subject but I was unable to get my mail trhu, where those discussion needs now to be carried on? debtags-devel?) > > * Inclusion of "Tag:" fields in package > > control files > Here I'm unsure if it should be done, as the tag data is updated more > often than the package data, as new facets show up, or some are > reorganized. However, having something like that means reminding debian > developers to tag their new packages, which would be very important: as > you say, if 100 new packages per weeks hit the archive, just tagging > those is a pretty tough job, and it would be extremely handy to have > developers at least provide a first, possibly imperfect categorization. I agree with Enrico here. debtags is a successfull effort in my opinion exactly because it was set up independently from our central package database. This permits to "risks" a bit more and doesn't necessarly need involvement by the people in care of maintaining our core tools which could be busy in some higher priority goal. Cheers. -- Stefano Zacchiroli -*- Computer Science PhD student @ Uny Bologna, Italy zack@{cs.unibo.it,debian.org,bononia.it} -%- http://www.bononia.it/zack/ If there's any real truth it's that the entire multidimensional infinity of the Universe is almost certainly being run by a bunch of maniacs. -!-
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