Re: ITP tagging superseded by the use of tasks pages ?

[Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>]

Le Fri, Sep 18, 2009 at 09:11:27PM +0900, Charles Plessy a écrit :
> Le Fri, Sep 18, 2009 at 09:11:50AM +0200, Andreas Tille a écrit :
> > 
> > I'm personally quite sloppy to add usertags to WNPP bugs because for *me* the
> > tasks pages serve the same purpose.  On the other hand there is nothing
> > against to be strict with the WNPP usertags - but I have no time to deal with
> > this for now.  I guess we are lagging behind with other WNPPs as well.
> 
> Hi Andreas and everybody,
> 
> I also think that the tasks files made WNPP tagging much less useful. If nobody
> uses this feature anymore, I propose I remove it from our group policy as well
> as from our wiki pages.

Hello again,

I attached a patch that I propose to commit. It removes the instructions about
the WNPP tagging, and adds a few informations about the task files.

Cheers,

-- 
Charles Plessy
Debian Med packaging team,
http://www.debian.org/devel/debian-med
Tsurumi, Kanagawa, Japan

Index: policy.xml
===================================================================
--- policy.xml	(révision 4006)
+++ policy.xml	(copie de travail)
@@ -185,29 +185,17 @@
 			if for some reason the package has not been uploaded, when the ITP bug is
 			<ulink url="http://lists.debian.org/msgid-search/1127503245.4308.5.camel@cerdita";>
 			automatically closed</ulink> one year later.</para>
-			<para>In addition to this you should add a user tag to this
-			<acronym>WNPP</acronym> bug to indicate which meta-package will likely recommend
-			the new package.</para>
-			<para>This can be done by sending a mail to <ulink url="mailto:request@bugs.debian.org";>request@bugs.debian.org</ulink>
-			with the following content:</para>
-			<blockquote>
-				<programlisting>user debian-med@lists.debian.org
-usertag &lt;bug-number&gt; + wnpp med-&lt;task&gt;
-thanks</programlisting>
-			</blockquote>
-			<para>For instance if you want to tag an <acronym>ITP</acronym> with
-			bug number #123456 for Debian Med section biology you would do the
-			following:</para>
-			<blockquote>
-				<programlisting>mailx -s "Tagging bug #123456" request@bugs.debian.org &lt;&lt;...
-user debian-med@lists.debian.org
-usertag 123456 + wnpp med-bio
-thanks
-...</programlisting>
-			</blockquote>
+			<para>In addition, please add the package to the <quote>task</quote> file where it fits
+			the best, and document your ITP number using the <command>WNPP</command> field name.</para>
 		</sect2>
 	</sect1>
 	<sect1>
+		<title>Tasks</title>
+		<para>The Debian Med <ulink url="http://blends.alioth.debian.org/blends";>Debian Pure Blend</ulink> is organised by <ulink url="http://debian-med.alioth.debian.org/tasks/index";>tasks</ulink>, that group packages around broad themes such as <ulink url="http://debian-med.alioth.debian.org/tasks/imaging";>medical imaging</ulink> for instance. The tasks list programs that are already packaged in Debian as well as packages in preparation.</para>
+		<para>The tasks files are not hosted in the Debian Med repositories, but in the Debian Blends repository. Nevertheless, all members of the Debian Med project on the Alioth forge have write access to the Blends subversion repository. You can easily check out its sources with the command <command>debcheckout -a debian-med</command>.</para>
+		<para>The syntax of the tasks files is very similar to Debian control files, and hopefully self-explanatory.</para>
+	</sect1>
+	<sect1>
 		<title>Policy</title>
 		<sect2>
 			<title><filename>debian/control</filename></title>