On Fri, 2024-08-09 at 22:32 -0700, Otto Kekäläinen wrote: > Hi! > > On Fri, 9 Aug 2024 at 04:12, Nicolas Peugnet <nicolas@club1.fr> wrote: > > > If there is interest in providing a page that only list the tag > > > description (without the affected packages), it would be easier to add > > > it to the existing UDD page (with an additional parameter for example) > > > than to create a separate service. > > > > As I said, The reason I made this is because it was very frustrating to > > click on links to lintian.debian.org as a newbie. Each time, I expected > > to see more information about the tag to help me understand what it > > exactly meant and how to fix it. > > Currently these links lead to nowhere. I think this should be fixed as > > it adds a lot of friction for newcomers. > > +1 to this and the rest of Nicolas' message. > > Additionally I wanted to raise that a lot of newcomers use search > engines to learn what the issues are. Also when discussing code > quality with upstream developers, they might be interested to learn > more, and when they enter in a search machine e.g. > 'executable-in-usr-share-docbase' they will get zero relevant results. > > When lintian.debian.org was running, it used to always be the top > result and an easy place to refer upstreams and newcomers to read up > on the issue. > > Nicolas' implementation (https://lintian.club1.fr/) to list all tags > on one page and link to UDD seems like a reasonable compromise in > functionality and maintenance effort. > Hi, +1 As someone who helps on mentors.d.n, having such data easily available is nothing but a benefit for contributors and mentors alike. Regards Phil -- "I play the game for the game’s own sake" Arthur Conan Doyle - The Adventure of the Bruce-Partington Plans -- Buy Me A Coffee: https://buymeacoffee.com/kathenasorg Internet Relay Chat (IRC): kathenas Matrix: #kathenas:matrix.org Website: https://kathenas.org Instagram: https://instagram.com/kathenasorg/ Threads: https://www.threads.net/@kathenasorg --
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