On Wed, Mar 25, 2009 at 05:30:19PM +0100, Wouter Verhelst wrote: > Hi, > > I thought I'd sent out this mail, but apparently I did that when I had > just reinstalled my laptop and the mailsetup wasn't working yet. Sorry > about that. > > Now almost a month ago, I asked Don Armstrong to create architecture > tags in the BTS. I've always felt that such a thing would be useful, > because often porters are unaware of architecture-specific bugs, simply > because there's no way in the BTS to actually search for them. Having > such an ability could make porters of a particular architecture aware of > the issues that affect their architecture, and (where necessary) able to > help out. > > Don suggested using usertags instead, since it is the policy of the > maintainers of the BTS to not create new 'regular' tags anymore unless a > usertag is in common use already. That's fine with me, but it has one > tiny little problem: if people are unaware of the usertag, they cannot > add it to their bugs, thereby defeating the purpose of this whole > exercise (allowing porters to find architecture-specific bugs that they > are unaware of). This mail is to remedy that one tiny little problem. > > I made a small proposal on the debian porters' mailinglists, which did > not encounter any resistance (apart from the fact that some > architectures already have a (set of) usertags that they use). It is as > follows: > > - The user to an architecture usertag should be the porters' mailinglist > for that particular architecture. That is, > debian-powe...@lists.debian.org for powerpc-related bugs, > debian-ar...@lists.debian.org for arm and armel-related bugs, and so > on. > - The usertag should be the name of the architecture: m68k for m68k, > powerpc for powerpc, hurd-i386 for hurd-i386, and so on (that's not > hard, is it? ;-) > > I made a short overview of this on the wiki, at > http://wiki.debian.org/Teams/Debbugs/ArchchitectureTags
Got an extra ch in there? > (with permission > from Don to write something in the /Teams/Debbugs namespace) > > Maintainers are hereby encouraged to use these usertags on any > architecture-specific bugs they might have on their packages. > -- dann frazier -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
