Re: RFC: wnpp bugs tagging
On Tue, 11 Mar 2008, Luca Brivio wrote:
- Why not using debian-science@lists.debian.org as the user, as we are already
doing?
I think that having bits of information which are useful for all Debian
developer tagged with the same user makes them *more* useful. See [3].
I'd strongly vote for using debian-science list as the user because
IMHO we need a specific group of Debian maintainers who care about this
specific topic and this brings things in focus on the right list.
You might have a look at the CDD documentation how to ITP[1].
- How can I see already tagged wnpp bugs?
Ref. [4] shows all non-archived bugs tagged with user
wnpp@packages.debian.org. (Note: At the moment, only 2 wnpp bugs of mine are
tagged (ITPs for morla and qfsm), the other shown are just tagged
with "legacy", non-faceted tags.) Ref. [5] shows wnpp bugs with tag
interface..x11
In the Debian-Med project I learned that most ITPers (including me from
time to time) forget to tag their ITPs. While this is a shame in principle
we have to face this as a given fact that you can only change by closely
watching WNPP and do the tagging on behalf of them.
Recently I decided that the Debian-Med tasks packages do perhaps a better
job in listing all interesting software for a specific topic because
we can list software inside and outside Debian. For instance have a
look at
http://debian-med.alioth.debian.org/tasks/bio.php or
http://debian-med.alioth.debian.org/tasks/imaging.php
which contains a list (including meta information) which at the end
has prospective packages with links to WNPP if such a bug exists. If
the bug does not exist the entry has useful information to file a
WNPP bug. I just explained in [2] how to get such a list for
Debian-Science but unfortunately nobody asked for SVN commit rights
to actually do the job of adding projects to the tasks files.
As I said in several previous mails: If you want some closer working
together as a Debian-Science team some work has to be done ...
Hope so. When there are some dozens of tagged wnpp packages, I'll try and make
them more visible through -devel and whatever, so this may become
a "recommendation"!
I like your suggestion anyway
Andreas.
[1] http://people.debian.org/~tille/cdd/ap-bts.en.html#s-howto_itp
[2] http://lists.debian.org/debian-science/2008/02/msg00018.html
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