Tag your packages

[Enrico Zini]

On Sat, May 01, 2004 at 02:18:23PM +0200, Erich Schubert wrote:

> looking at the current state of the vocabulary and the user interface:
> don't you think it's too early to re-announce it on debian-devel?

Yes.  And no :)

Yesterday I was chatting with fabbione and we have been discussing tags,
and he asked me "btw, how do I tag my packages?".

I realize tags have been going on for a year and are still almost
disconnected from the rest of the community.

So I explained fabbione how to tag his packages, and I thought it was
worth sending that info also on -devel.  One of the first things I wrote
in the message is exactly that the system is not finished at all, and
the thing that I gave and URL to edit also tells things quite clearly.

I'm aware the system's not ready for prime time, but that wasn't prime
time: it was more like a way of remembering people we're still active
and of getting some feedback.

Among the interesting feedback we had, people have requested to be able
to enter their e-mail to see the package they maintain, linked to the
tagging pages.  Damn useful, but we still hadn't thought about that.

In the meantime, I've started considering building a GUI app for
maintainers to tag their packages.  Something intended for someone who
still doesn't know much about tags, but would like to fix the tagging of
some packages.  I have some ideas, I hope to find some time.


Ciao,

Enrico