Infrastructure

• Wiki area

• Documentation: http://debtags.alioth.debian.org/paper-debconf7/

• Services handled by the team:

  • Tagging interface: https://debtags.debian.org/edit/

  • Popcon suggestions: http://people.debian.org/~enrico/popsuggest

  • Tag data: https://debtags.debian.org/exports/ and the Debian Packages file

Interacting with the team

• Read the FAQ first: http://debtags.alioth.debian.org/faq.html

• Email contact: <debtags-devel AT lists DOT alioth DOT debian DOT org>

• Request tracker: You can report bugs to the debtags package in the Debian BTS

• Public IRC channel: #ekhis on irc.freenode.net (Freenode)

Usual roles

• Enrico Zini (IRC nick enrico) keeps things running and experiments with new ideas

• Erich Schubert (IRC nick erich) experiments with tag clouds and AI engines

• Justin B. Rye is the vocabulary expert

• Arnaud Fontaine (IRC nick arnau) helps with packaging

Task description

debtags provides a system to download a database of package tags and keep it up to date. A package tag is a small label that gets attached to a Debian package to represent one of its qualities.

A package tag database in the system can enable advanced package search techniques, and advanced package browsing functions in programs that support it.