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Re: Bug#144046: general: Sections are not finely grained



Daniel Burrows <dburrows@debian.org> writes:

>   Even if we did most of the work in a distributed fashion, I still
> think at least one person should dedicate a fair portion of their time
> to reviewing the hierarchy and making sure it makes sense.

We could approach this in the same way we go about sections: allow
maintainers to make a suggestion, the final decision lies with a small,
dedicated "keyword-master" team. Miscategorisation can be rectified by
appealing to them through bugging a pseudopackage.

I don't think this team needs to be equal to the ftp-masters.

To give the keyword-masters more leeway in how they dedicate their
time without stalling new packages, these could go into unstable
uncategorised (or under the maintainer-suggested keywords). Packages
shouldn't be allowed into testing without approved keywords.

BTW, why is the categorical browser not advertised in big neon signs?
I managed to miss this feature through months of using aptitude!

-- 
Robbe

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