Re: [Tails-dev] Where to link to contribute/how/debian?

intrigeri:
> sajolida@??? wrote (27 Feb 2014 11:32:01 GMT) :
>> I see that quite a bit of content on this page will evolve with our
>> Redmine ticket.
>
> I was careful not to do that too much, and I see only *two* links
> to tickets of ours.

That's not a lot in quantity I admin. But I was more thinking about the
idea of having particular tickets listed on a static page like this.

>> What about having a category related to Debian. So we can have all
>> the tickets in one listing.
>
> I see the problem you are describing.
>
> I don't think adding a Debian category would be sensible: the category
> field expresses the area of Tails that a given task is about, not the
> exact place where the problem must be fixed. E.g. #6507 should be in
> the "OpenPGP applet" category, and #5484 is already in the
> "browser" one.
>
> Before posting this, I've researched if we could use tags to solve
> this problem. There are a few plugins around that add tagging support
> to Redmine, but they don't seem well-maintained, so I'd rather not
> rely on them.
>
> Another lead could be to add a "Debian" type of work: we already have
> an "Upstream" one, which is quite awkward to use, not very well
> defined, and stretching the "type of work" logics a bit too much for
> my taste. But I don't see anything better we could do.
>
> So, it seems to me that while not very satisfactory, adding a "Debian"
> type of work would be our best bet for now, and let's hope tags come
> in Redmine soon enough.
>
> Thoughts?

All that makes sense to me but I most likely won't be the one to
manipulate that information. So if you think that adding a "Debian" type
of work might work, then let's just try and see how it goes.

> Great! Added a link in that section, then (a6d56ba).
>
> Now going to announce that page on the Debian -derivatives and -devel
> mailing-lists.

Nice to see it live!