On Thu, Mar 06, 2008 at 07:07:54PM +0100, Lucas Nussbaum wrote:
> Well, if someone writes the code for bugs tagged help, it won't be hard
> to write the code for bugs usertagged gift as well.
In the past implementing potentially useful stuff in the PTS first has
been amazingly helpful in spreading new habits. For example the whole
Vcs-* field affair started exactly from the PTS. Given that I like the
gift idea and that I've added the implementation of the +help stuff on
my TODO list sooner or later we might hand up having it in the PTS, ...
or maybe Raphael will beat me at it :)
However, there is a noteworthy difference between +help and +gift from
the point of view of the PTS. The PTS is source package -oriented.
According to this view it does make sense to highlight the fact that the
package has some +help bug: if the reader is interested in the source
package, it might be interested in helping out with it. It is very
similar to what we already have for orphaned packages.
The +gift tag on the contrary is not something which have to be accessed
in a package-oriented way, but rather in an archive-oriented way. That
is, the targets of the gift idea are people which just want to
contribute, they do not necessarily want to contribute to a specific
package. If they already know the package they want to contribute to,
they can start looking at any bugs, not necessarily at the +gift. For
this specific target (assuming I've understood correctly the gift idea),
the only view which does make sense is an aggregate view of +gift bugs
coming from several packages.
So, in this respect, I'm not convinced that it does make sense to
support +gift in the PTS ...
Cheers.
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