Hey, On 12/11/14 09:50, Christian Kastner wrote: > On 2014-11-12 02:14, Don Armstrong wrote: >> I'd suggest using the BTS's summary command, which enables you to >> nominate a message whose first paragraph will summarize the bug. >> >> This is free form, but that's probably good enough (at least for >> starters). > > a search by the "entry-point" tag alone would indeed reduce the list of > issues to hundreds (thousands?) of entries, but that's still a lot. On > the other hand, if these were possible, I think the value should be > evident (FTR, all flags to how-can-i-help made up): > > $ how-can-I-help --difficulty low --skills C > $ how-can-I-help --difficulty hard --skills Java > $ how-can-I-help --type translation > $ how-can-I-help --difficulty low --skills packaging While I really like the idea (and I'm willing to implement it in how-can-i-help) I see two things that need to be discussed/resolved if we are going to use 'summary' field: 1. UDD needs to be made aware of the 'summary' field. I did a few simple queries [1] but I didn't find it in UDD database, so I'm assuming that it is not supported at the moment. I'm not an expert here so I do not know if it is even possible and if so, how much work is required to add it. 2. In order to make it machine (hcih-)readable we have to define a clear, sane format. We will also have to define a list of available options (difficulties, skills, types, etc.). Regards, T. [1] https://wiki.debian.org/UltimateDebianDatabase/Hacking
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