On Tue, Mar 03, 2009 at 10:03:18PM +0200, Vasilios Karaklioumis wrote: > Wouter Verhelst wrote: >> Hi, >> >> I've often thought that it would be useful to have tags in the BTS so >> that users or maintainers could mark a bug as specific to a particular >> architecture. This way, when I have some spare time, I could go to the >> BTS, fetch a list of bugs that are specific to an architecture I care >> about, and see what I can do about them, or give some feedback if that >> would help. >> >> Using a set of usertags under my own email address on the BTS wouldn't >> really work for that, since it kindof defeats the whole purpose; I want >> to use these tags to find bugs that I care about in the first place, but >> in order for me to be able to add a usertag, I would have to know about >> the bug before I could find it. Kind of a chicken-and-egg problem. >> >> So I suggested to Don Armstrong that he add a set of >> architecture-specific regular tags; but he seemed averse to this, as the >> current informal policy of the debbugs maintainers is to require that a >> usertag is used for a particular purpose before they add a new regular >> tag; this is so that no tags get created which won't be used. I guess >> this is a worty goal. >> >> After a short discussion on IRC, we came up with another option: a set >> of publically documented usertags, the definition of which would be >> announced on debian-devel-announce and linked to from the BTS homepage, >> so that maintainers could apply them to architecture-specific bugs when >> necessary. The format, suggested by Steve Langasek, was to use the >> porters mailinglist as the user, and the architecture name as the >> usertag (e.g., 'debian-m...@lists.debian.org' as user, and 'm68k' as >> tag). >> >> Before I'll fire off an email to d-d-a announcing that, does anyone have >> any comments, objections, or suggestions to improve this proposal? >> >> Thanks, >> >> > Excellent news.This will come very handy.Thanks.
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