Hello, often it seems to me that wnpp bugs could be more useful than they are. For example, when one search the lists for (new) packages to maintain or to help with, she has nearly no way to quickly select packages based on some criteria. On the other hand, several Debian sub-projects have their own manually updated lists of both software already in Debian and other interesting software, but AFAICS for most of the latter no bug is filed, I guess because given the number of the RFP bugs and thus the length of that list people tends to submit bugs for particularly important software only, while e.g. wikis allows at least to organize software in categories (see DebianScience), and so encourage to keep complete lists.
My idea is that facets and tags would be a far better way to have prospective and orphaned packages organized. Of course, wnpp refers to source, while debtags currently only refers to binary packages... If filed wnpp bugs could contain tags, we may obtain lists of software which is not in Debian, by type, language, field, etc. just like we can do now through debtags-related tools and APIs. RFPs IMHO would become more useful, Debian sub-projects' webpages may show automatically updated lists of interesting packages and packages being worked on, it would be easier to check for already filed wnpp bugs, and so on. Do you think it would be feasible to implement this? it would be worth it? Do you see technical problems or drawbacks being there? Cheers, -- Luca _______________________________________________ Debtags-devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/debtags-devel
