Debtags consolidation

news · February 2, 2016

Hello,

I am doing some cleanup and consolidation of the debtags website. This

mail summarises my plan, what has already happen and what I plan to make

happen in the short term.

* My plan

Currently the site accepts tag submissions anonymously, and they need

manual review before being passed on to ftp-master.

I want to remove the need for tag reviews, because they are tedious and

I have been doing them rarely enough that I'm afraid I've been

discouraging people from contributing tags.

To do that, I intend to discontinue anonymous submissions in favour of

submissions by people authenticated via sso.debian.org. Since sso can

use alioth accounts and anyone can create an alioth account, this should

allow everyone to still be able to contribute.

Once submissions are not anonymous and people can take responsibility

for the data they contribute, I can periodically just send everything to

ftp-master.

* What has already happened

- the site has moved from HTTP to HTTPS

- the site has moved from http://debtags.debian.net to

- http://debtags.debian.net redirects everything to

- https://debtags.debian.org can now accept sso.debian.org client

certificates[1]

- when using a client certificate, your name shows up at the top right

of the page, and clicking on it you get an overview of the state of

your packages

- you get a personal history of your tag submissions

* What is going to happen in the near future

- I will disable anonymous tagging

- I will remove the distinction between unreviewed and reviewed tags

- I will make tagging appear as contributions on contributors.debian.org

- I will use package section information to make obvious packages like

shlibs and debug symbols disappear from the site, and get tagged

entirely automatically

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