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Re: Before I send a bug report to change DebTags please do some sanity check



On Mon, Feb 08, 2016 at 01:45:16PM +0100, Andreas Tille wrote:

> > I'm also entirely in favour of the restructuring of facet to remove the
> > tags under biology, that I agree belong in the biology facet.
> 
> Sorry, I do not understand this sentence.

I mean, I'm ok with this part of the patch:

 Facet: field
 Status: controversial
 Comment: how broad is the definition of a "field"?
@@ -563,18 +600,6 @@ Description: Aviation
 Tag: field::biology
 Description: Biology
 
-Tag: field::biology:bioinformatics
-Description: Bioinformatics
- Sequence analysis software.
-
-Tag: field::biology:molecular
-Description: Molecular Biology
- Software useful to molecular cloning and related wet biology.
-
-Tag: field::biology:structural
-Description: Structural Biology
- Software useful to model tridimentional structures.
-


> > How about biology-edam facet, and a biology-format facet?
> 
> Just to be sure:  With this syntax you suggest really new facets and not
> tags inside the biology facet, right?

Yes, new facets with a biology-* prefix. I think that a facet should
represent a specific point of view from which to look at the archive,
and so I think it's best to have many biology-* facets if the biologists
look at the archive from various points of view.


> > We could also decide that each tag under "field" can act as a prefix for
> > any number of field-specific facets, maintained by the people who
> > package field-specific packages.
> 
> Sounds like a good compromise to me.

Ok!


Enrico

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