Hello, I am doing some cleanup and consolidation of the debtags website. This mail summarises my plan, what has already happen and what I plan to make happen in the short term. * My plan Currently the site accepts tag submissions anonymously, and they need manual review before being passed on to ftp-master. I want to remove the need for tag reviews, because they are tedious and I have been doing them rarely enough that I'm afraid I've been discouraging people from contributing tags. To do that, I intend to discontinue anonymous submissions in favour of submissions by people authenticated via sso.debian.org. Since sso can use alioth accounts and anyone can create an alioth account, this should allow everyone to still be able to contribute. Once submissions are not anonymous and people can take responsibility for the data they contribute, I can periodically just send everything to ftp-master. * What has already happened - the site has moved from HTTP to HTTPS - the site has moved from http://debtags.debian.net to https://debtags.debian.org \o/ - http://debtags.debian.net redirects everything to https://debtags.debian.org - https://debtags.debian.org can now accept sso.debian.org client certificates[1] - when using a client certificate, your name shows up at the top right of the page, and clicking on it you get an overview of the state of your packages - you get a personal history of your tag submissions * What is going to happen in the near future - I will disable anonymous tagging - I will remove the distinction between unreviewed and reviewed tags - I will make tagging appear as contributions on contributors.debian.org - I will use package section information to make obvious packages like shlibs and debug symbols disappear from the site, and get tagged entirely automatically [1] https://wiki.debian.org/DebianSingleSignOn#Documentation_for_Users Also, I decided to close the debtags-devel mailing list, and I have changed the workflow for submitting new tags to the Debtags vocabulary accordingly[2]. [2] http://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/debtags-devel/2016-January/002306.html A big thank you to Peter Palfrader and the rest of DSA for the massive help with the move from http://debtags.debian.net to https://debtags.debian.org Enrico doing aggressive spring cleaning -- GPG key: 4096R/E7AD5568 2009-05-08 Enrico Zini <enrico@enricozini.org>
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