Package: wnpp Severity: normal X-debbugs-cc: debian-devel@lists.debian.org, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
The size of Debian increases, and the "Sections:" system has proven unable to scale to keep pace with it. There has been much consensus around a multiple tags per package solution: the Debian Package Tags system is a working implementation. Debtags is one of the most interesting prospective expansions of the Debian package metadata, it contains promosing prototypes and has received very good feedback so far. The problem is, there are only three people actively working on it: Erich Schubert takes care of the central tag archive at http://debian.vitavonni.de/packagebrowser/ and part of the tag vocabulary. Thaddeus H. Black takes care of debram, which is another independent effort to improve package metadata and is intended to eventually merge into debtags. Enrico Zini (me) takes care of all the implementation and Debian packaging of the system components, and the other part of the tag vocabulary. I find myself responsible for too many things, and as the system evolves I can't keep up with it. Currently, it already consists of 6 source packages: libtagcoll Functions for handling collections of tagged items. tagcoll Commandline wrapper around libtagcoll, and generic manipulation tool for tagged collections. tagcolledit GUI interface for mass-editing of tagged collections. libdebtags Function for handling the Debian package metadata, extended with tag informations debtags Commandline wrapper around libdebtags, and administration tool for the Debian Package Tags debtags-edit GUI interface for searching packages and updating their categorization This is their dependency interrelationship: libtagcoll tagcoll Depends on libtagcoll tagcolledit Depends on libtagcoll libdebtags Depends on libtagcoll debtags Depends on libdebtags debtags-edit Depends on libdebtags To keep up with the expansion and evolution of the project, we need more people. The main, extremely sought help is to have someone taking care of the Debian packaging, so that I can focus on being a productive "upstream": I'm a better software designer/developer than Debian maintainer, and I'm spending too much time in figuring out how to setup library versions that I could better spend in implementing some long-awaited feature. Other "job openings" could be: - Creating library bindings to languages different than C++ - Gtk-- developers to help on the GUI tools - C++ developers writing test cases - People taking care of part of the the facet/tag structure, providing new know-how for categorizing things we don't know much about, writing descriptions, reorganizing the taxonomy - People using debtags and its libraries in their applications, or making sample applications that make use of the libraries - C++ and i18n/l10n experts to help in taking things away from the C locale - People taking care of the web space of the project Please consider joining the team: working on the Debian Package Tags is extremely interesting, rewarding and overall a big lot of fun! Ciao, Enrico -- GPG key: 1024D/797EBFAB 2000-12-05 Enrico Zini <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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