[Debtags-devel] DOAP "Description of a Project"

[Erich Schubert]

I just stumbeled (thanks to Ross Burtons blog) into DOAP.
DOAP is an "XML/RDF vocabulary to describe open source projects"

Maybe we should extend that with some tags element. This would
eventually allow debtags information to be generated from the DOAP
description of projects that do provide such information.

We do not need to modify DOAP itself, we can just use it. They have a
"category" tag, which looks like the following:

<category rdf:resource=3D"http://software.freshmeat.net/browse/1020/" />

We could just modify this to something like

<category rdf:resource=3D"http://debtags.alioth.debian.org/tags/ui__gtk" />

albeit i consider this to be too verbose, and i'd prefer something like

<categories rdf:resource=3D"http://debtags.alioth.debian.org/tags/">
ui::gtk use::editor
</categories>

of whitespace separated category names. You still can have multiple
categories or category tags for different "category namespaces".
maybe they'd prefer not having to separate text by whitespace, i'd then lik=
e

<categories rdf:resource=3D"http://debtags.alioth.debian.org/tags/">
<category>ui::gtk</category><category>use::editor</category>
</categories>

or something similar. We need some people who'd like to make a
proposal for that and talk to the DOAP guys.

Greetings,
Erich Schubert
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