[Tracker-discuss] [issue78] Make use of keywords more obvious
Brett C.
metatracker at psf.upfronthosting.co.za
Sun Mar 11 02:58:36 CET 2007
Brett C. added the comment:
On 3/10/07, Martin v. Löwis <metatracker at psf.upfronthosting.co.za> wrote:
>
> Martin v. Löwis added the comment:
>
> > I have been thinking of having keywords like "needs docs", "needs
> > tests"
>
> For demonstration purposes, I added these.
>
> >, etc
>
> Not sure what "etc" is.
"etc" as in "so on and so forth". In other words there are more
possible keywords but I don't want to list them all right now. =)
>We should have a list of keywords to be present
> when the tracker goes life.
>
> > But a keyword list of every module seems tedious and long. I would
> > rather have a text field where you can just type in anything you want
> > than try to maintain a list of every single module in the stdlib.
>
> The tracker already has full-text search, so maybe this is enough.
> Some people are fond of having lots of machine-procssable information
> associated with tracker items, as they argue that you can search for
> it. They forget that somebody has to enter that information.
>
Right. I don't mind having it either. But I would rather have a
free-form field since that does not require keeping a list of all the
module in the stdlib, nor having to scroll through one.
> OTOH, if some volunteer promises to track "affected modules", I wouldn't
> mind it is in the data structure of the tracker. There is no need to
> have that available from the beginning, of course.
>
Right.
-Brett
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