[Pkg-xen-devel] usertags for xen bugs?

[Ian Campbell]

On Mon, 2013-08-19 at 13:28 +0200, Bastian Blank wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 16, 2013 at 03:16:49PM +0100, Ian Campbell wrote:
> > Looking through http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/pkgreport.cgi?src=xen I
> > think it would be useful to add some usertags, in particular to easily
> > filter for toolstack specific (i.e xend) bugs.
> 
> I've never seen the use for this.

I was hoping to filter out the many xend bugs in the bts which are
clearly never going to get fixed, until the point where we remove xend
and can just close them.

> The kernel team tried and it did not
> work well.

Interesting, I was also considering a usertag for marking xen related
kernel bugs. It was a toss up between pkg-xen-devel@ and debian-kernel@
namespace...

>  The release team however uses them and like it.
> 
> >                                                I think we can use the
> > pkg-xen-devel at lists.alioth.debian.org namespace for this -- what do you
> > think?
> 
> No objection.

Thx.

Only thing I'm not certain of is how discoverable the usertags are, I'll
see if I can find a suitable wikipage or bit of alioth to write about
them on.

Ian.