[Debtags-devel] software quality tags?

Justin B Rye jbr at edlug.org.uk
Wed Sep 7 16:06:50 UTC 2005


Erich Schubert wrote:
> I've always wanted software-quality tags for debtags. What do you think?
> On the one hand, something like the "alpha, beta, stable, mature" tags
> of sourceforge,

This might be too many categories for people to agree on - I don't
know about anyone else, but I'd never dare apply anything much more
detailed than a tag indicating "still clearly labelled as not
production-ready".

(Though on the other hand your list misses out the standard
software lifecycle stages "bloated" and "decrepit"...)

> but also a tag for "audited".

Watch out for bitrot - a network server audited last year isn't
necessarily safe against next year's worms.

(Also, "http://www.debian.org/security/audit/faq#clean")
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JBR
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