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Re: RFC: wnpp bugs tagging



Alle 14:21, mer 12 marzo 2008, Andreas Tille ha scritto:
> On Wed, 12 Mar 2008, Luca Brivio wrote:
> > Yeah, I'm been doing this with a few RFPs, this is a best practise for
> > me. Of course there are two problems:
> > 1) Many interested persons aren't subscribed to (all) the relevant
> > mailing lists (think of new maintainers, and so on).
>
> Right.  They probably are not subscribed because their time scale does
> not allow to follow the list.  If this is the reason they most probably
> will also refuse to pick up a RFP bug and do not need to be informed
> anyway.

Or they weren't subscribed when the mail was posted, or they are people from 
Ubuntu... :-)

> > It is indeed (together with set lists of tags, perhaps policies, etc.).
> > There's just a difference between people each tagging their own bugs and
> > me tagging those left untagged by others. :-)
>
> I agree that tagging is a really omportant thing.  But tagging alone
> does not really help if people do not check WNPP for tags that are set.
> The tags are only relevant for those people who are querying the BTS
> for tags which means tags are a source of information who actively seek
> for it.  But my aproach to push information to people by sending a
> mail to those who are potentially interested will reach those who are
> not actively running a query against BTS.

Yes. OTOH, pre-defined queries are really useful things to link from website 
static and wiki pages, which isn't actively querying. Your approach is of 
course a very efficient one and doesn't need any replacement.

> > Alright. So we maybe should let external contributors put data on the
> > wiki and then remove them once they have been added to tasks. Including a
> > disclaimer about this in the wiki pages would be really useful! and I can
> > do it myself.
>
> This sounds like a reasonable idea.  There should just be a hint in the
> wiki to verify that the project you would like to mention is not yet
> included in the auto generated page.

Maybe I'll create a template (from existing pages) including this hint.

-- 
Luca

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