[Reportbug-maint] Bug#524511: cannot set tags on command line

[Sandro Tosi]

Hi Martin,

On Mon, Jun 8, 2009 at 07:17, martin f krafft<madduck at debian.org> wrote:
> also sprach Sandro Tosi <morph at debian.org> [2009.06.06.0836 +0200]:
>> The solution I'd like to pursuit is: provide the whole set of BTS tags
>
> This means that whenever a new tag is added, you have to upload
> a new reportbug, and that the information is redundantly stored also
> in devscript's bts. I wonder if it weren't better not to do any
> checks.

Let's put it this way:

- tags are an official part on BTS and are defined by BTS admin
(usertags are a different categorization, out of this problem);
- tags don't change that ofter (except for "release" specific tags,
that are private for rel team to set, and almost never done at submit
time), so we can update the list when changes are applied and wait for
a new upload to happen without too much worry and hurry;
- since we should guarantee that reportbug works even offline, we
cannot download the list all the times, so having a little replication
of data (with a script to check for update) seems to reduce the impact
of the problem.

Hope this clarify the situation, but your suggestions are always welcome :)

Cheers,
-- 
Sandro Tosi (aka morph, morpheus, matrixhasu)
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