Tag consolidation

[Murat Gunes]

Hi,

I've pointed two people (one MOTU hopeful and one who'd like to get
started in triaging bugs) to https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Bugs/Tags , among
other wiki pages, and both immediately got back to me asking why there
were some redundant tags there. This has been on my mind for a while
too, but I've lacked the time and energy to discuss it with the rest of
the team, until today. 

1) Why do we have two separate tags for small bugs that are ideal for
new contributors, namely, "ubuntulove" and "bitesize"? Is there a real
difference between them? If there is, it's not made clear in /Bugs/Tags
at the moment. If one has been deprecated, it should be removed from the
list.

2) What exactly is the distinction between "metabug" and "likely-dup"?
Is it that "likely-dup" also points to the possible existence of an
upstream bug, beside that of a duplicate in Ubuntu? That is the obvious
interpretation, but it still leaves room for some doubt. If this is the
case, a combination of the following can be done to convey the
difference better:

* Better wording can be used to underline the distinction

* Listing these tags consecutively may better communicate that they're
both actively used (right now it can be interpreted as if one was
deprecated, and accidentally left there after the other was added)

* "likely-dup" can be deprecated and a separate tag for "possible
upstream bug" can be introduced, to be used in combination with
"metabug", as well as independently. I'm not sure the concept of a
duplicate works well across bug trackers, and/or that there are enough
use cases to warrant having a single tag for two things. This is just an
idea I'm throwing out there though; I do feel I may be wrong and I'd
love to hear good arguments against it.

3) Isn't "needs-improvement" superseded by Malone's mentoring feature,
and the "Incomplete" status?

I feel some consolidation could be beneficial. What do others think?

m.