On Thu, Jul 06, 2006 at 05:31:15AM -0400, Daniel Dickinson wrote: > If I do tagging, will it be used? I'd like to see the debian packages > list fully tagged for Etch + 1, and am willing to do the work, but have > held off, because I got the impression that submitted tags were just > ending up in a backlog. If I'm wrong on that please let me know, > otherwise I'll hold off until tag processing is happening.
Please keep tagging. Yes, tags are currently ending up in a backlog, but Alex de Landgraaf is working on the tag inference AI that could be put to use to approve 'obvious' tags, and for the rest we put together a very good idea today here at RMLL (thanks to aba). The idea is to have maintainers approve tags for their packages. Approval can work on the web interface: a page can show the differences between the tags in the Packages file and the tags in the central database, and the maintainer can approve them entering a secret hash to identify him/herself. Once approved, the packages are committed into the reviewed database and regularly (weekly?) sent to update the Packages file. The secret hash can be requested via a web page, sent via e-mail and optionally stored in a cookie to avoid reentering it later. This is luckily not hard to implement, and if no one volunteers I could try working on it one month from now (I'll be away most of July). Ciao, Enrico -- GPG key: 1024D/797EBFAB 2000-12-05 Enrico Zini <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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