On Sun, 24 Feb 2008, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: > On Sat, Feb 23, 2008 at 01:03:01PM -0800, Don Armstrong wrote: > > If there are sets of usertags which are in common use by a reasonable > > number of diverse packages, and are something that would normally be > > put on the [EMAIL PROTECTED] user (that is to say, make them > > visible by default) then file a bug against bugs.debian.org askiing > > for that tag to be made a real tag. > > > > That's the best way to standardize usertags which are currently not > > bts-wide tags. > > Ack on the general principle. > > However, the need which was pointed out to seemed to me more than a > tag: in my head it was distilled as "priority", as available in > other bug tracking systems. This is something that can be encoded > with usertags, but such an encoding does not have good properties > such as mutual exclusion of alternative priorities.
It almost sounds like you want a user setable severity-like field. That could be implemented, but the problem is that it's far less flexible than usertags because it would only have a single value. In fact, assuming the assignment to usercategories was done properly, it wouldn't matter if a bug had multiple "priority" tags, as a bug that had the higest tag would be separated from the other tags even if it still had a lower tag. See http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/pkgreport.cgi?pkg=debbugs;[EMAIL PROTECTED] for an example of my segregation of the debbugs package. Don Armstrong -- To steal ideas from one person is plagiarism; to steal from many is research. -- Steven Wright http://www.donarmstrong.com http://rzlab.ucr.edu -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
