Tag consolidation

[Brian Murray]

On Tue, Dec 18, 2007 at 05:02:06AM +0200, Murat Gunes wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> 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.

I believe these tags were added by the MOTU team so it would be best to 
check with them.
 
> 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

I've tried to clear up the wording of both of them.  Please let me know
what you think.
 
> * 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)

I have reordered them as you suggested - thanks!
 
> * "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 3) Isn't "needs-improvement" superseded by Malone's mentoring feature,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 created this tag because there isn't mentoring for triaging.
Mentoring is supposed to be used when someone is willing to help another
person to write the code to fix the bug.  However, I believe I'm the
only one who tagged bugs as "needs-improvement" and it never really took
off so it could be removed.

Thanks for bringing all of this up!
-- 
Brian Murray                                                 @ubuntu.com
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