[Debtags-devel] Re: Re: software quality tags?

Michelle Konzack linux4michelle at freenet.de
Fri Sep 9 12:15:01 UTC 2005


Hello Enrico,

Am 2005-09-09 13:50:23, schrieb Enrico Zini:

> Uhm, I do not know much of these things, so I need a bit of briefing.
> 
> What are these EAL things?  Who does them?

<http://devel.debian.tamay-dogan.homelinux.net/CC_v2.1_-_HTMK/>

> If there is some authority making them, then they can publish a tag
> source and vocabulary snippet like (omitting descriptions and spaces
> between records for brevity):
> 
> Facet: audited
> Tag: audited::eal
> Tag: audited::eal:0
> Tag: audited::eal:1
> Tag: audited::eal:2
> Tag: audited::eal:3
> Tag: audited::eal:4
> Tag: audited::eal:5
> Tag: audited::eal:6

This wibb be perfect...

> And then every time they audit a package they can add that to the tags:
> 
> foobar: audited::eal:3
> 
> But then there are other issues like 'date of checking', 'version
> checked', 'who checked' and so on.  I don't know if debtags is the right
> way to implement this, really.

I have had the same problem for 2 years...

> Maybe there should be a more complete database, and debtags could
> provide a limited view of it, like "All EAL4 packages audited less than
> 6 months ago get "audited::eal4".  And then, debtags still doesn't track
> versions.  No, probably Debtags isn't the right way of doing this.  Not
> now nor anytime soon, I guess.

Hmmm...

> Ciao,
> 
> Enrico

Greetings
Michelle

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