Refactoring the Debtags web interface

[Andreas Tille]

On Sun, 22 Feb 2009, Enrico Zini wrote:

> - workflow changes:
>    - form subcommittees by broad topics: "The Gnome Guys", "The KDE Guys",
>      "The Web Developers", "The Photographers" and so on, and give them
>      the ultimate say on a set of tags, including being able to say "these
>      packages are ok and reviewed now, disallow edits for all our tags on
>      them".

Very reasonable.

>    - maintainer specific (review submissions related to my packages)

Reasonable.

>    - interest specific (review submissions related to a set of
>      interesting tags; for example, the ocaml maintainers may want to
>      review changes to the *::ocaml tags)

Very reasonable.

> - auditing
>    - track the history of tag changes for a package

The only reason I see here mihght be to track down "Debtag-Vandalism".

> About authenticated access:
>
> - I do not want to maintain another user/password database: this should
>   be done with Openid and a whitelist of identity providers that every
>   DD can easily use (like alioth or debian)

... and I do not want to remember just another password - so yes, please
try to use plugins to debian LDAP or Alioth.

> - SQL Database to track the workflow
>    - Track who assigned / removed a tag
>      Anon users, Member of team X, Autotagger X, Tag reviewer

IMHO important for Debtags QA.

>    - Unchangeable ("definitive") tag changes

Hmmm, "unchangeable" - is there anything in this world unchangeable? ;-)

>    - Privilege tables for contributors
>       - is a maintainer / uploader of
>       - is member of group

Seems to be consistent with what you suggested above -> very reasonable.

> - Xapian Index

I have to less knowledge about Xapian to give reasonable comments here.

> Ciao,

I'd really like to thanks you at this place for your continous work for
Debtags!

Kind regards

        Andreas.

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