debtags for wnpp bugs?

[Jérémy Bobbio]

On Sat, Feb 23, 2008 at 08:46:10PM +0100, Luca Brivio wrote:
> often it seems to me that wnpp bugs could be more useful than they are. For 
> example, when one search the lists for (new) packages to maintain or to help 
> with, she has nearly no way to quickly select packages based on some 
> criteria. […]
> 
> My idea is that facets and tags would be a far better way to have prospective 
> and orphaned packages organized. […]

I was in FOSDEM last week-end and I have seen Enrico's talk about
apt-xapian-index [1].  This package can feed a Xapian database from various
sources in an extensible way.  Debtags are already implemented as such
source, package descriptions are another.

I wonder if by creating another apt-xapian-source from wnpp would not
solve the problem you are mentioning in an easier and better way. :)

[1] http://packages.debian.org/apt-xapian-index

Cheers,
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Jérémy Bobbio                        .''`. 
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