Hello,
I've started to ponder a decent redesign of the Debtags web interface,
that will be hosted at debtags.debian.net. I'd like to post here my
intentions, as a sort of RFC. Comments are welcome.
New features that I think are needed:
- workflow changes:
- form subcommittees by broad topics: "The Gnome Guys", "The KDE Guys",
"The Web Developers", "The Photographers" and so on, and give them
the ultimate say on a set of tags, including being able to say "these
packages are ok and reviewed now, disallow edits for all our tags on
them".
- support tags coming from external sources (like security team or
QA) and displayed by the site but never updated via the site
- web interface for reviewing anonymous tag submissions
- global (review all submissions)
- maintainer specific (review submissions related to my packages)
- interest specific (review submissions related to a set of
interesting tags; for example, the ocaml maintainers may want to
review changes to the *::ocaml tags)
- auditing
- track the history of tag changes for a package
About authenticated access:
- I do not want to maintain another user/password database: this should
be done with Openid and a whitelist of identity providers that every
DD can easily use (like alioth or debian)
About implementation details:
- SQL Database to track the workflow
- History of tags assigned / removed from a package
- Track who assigned / removed a tag
Anon users, Member of team X, Autotagger X, Tag reviewer
- Track the origin of a tag
(website, qa, secteam, team X)
- Track if a tag change has been reviewed
- Unchangeable ("definitive") tag changes
- Generate tag sets to feed autotaggers and whatnot
- Review
- Unreview
- Reviewed or unreviewed plus one or more other sources
- Database of contributors
- anonymous / openid identifier / external tag source / data mining
program
- Track the contributors of tag changes
- Privilege tables for contributors
- is a maintainer / uploader of
- is member of group
- is member of debtags
(would it be possible to get list of group members from alioth?)
- Database with package information, for display purposes only
- Regularly updated via dde.debian.net
- Xapian Index
- Used for searches
- Used for suggestions
- Regularly updated via dde.debian.net
- Needs to have the latest unreviewed tags, so that suggestions are updated in
real time as people tag
Milestones:
- Create the SQL Database
- Import historical tagdbs from alioth, to simulate a tag update history
- Regular imports from alioth
- Regular updates from DDE
- Create the Xapian database
- Regular updates from DDE
- Services as a slave interface to the authoritative data on
debtags.a.d.o
- First useful services
- Tag review pages
- Feature parity with debtags.a.d.o
- Port the maintenance procedures
- Become the authoritative tag database
- Setup redirect from debtags.a.d.o
Ciao,
Enrico
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