[Ayatana] Ayatana bug tags

[Frederik Nnaji]

Hi Sense

On Sat, May 22, 2010 at 16:00, Sense Hofstede <qense at ubuntu.com> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> On request of Jorge Castro I've defined a few bug tags for use with
> several transitioning projects related to Ayatana.
>
> The two new tags are 'global-menu' —
> <https://bugs.edge.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+bugs?field.tag=global-menu> —
> and 'trayaway' —
> <https://bugs.edge.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+bugs?field.tag=trayaway>. The
> first one is for problems that arise with applications when the Global
> Menu is enabled. Currently there are no bugs using that tag. The
> second tag is for the Notification Area transition —
> <https://wiki.ubuntu.com/NotificationAreaTransition> — some
> applications still refer to the tray in their settings and dialogues,
> but that should be removed once the tray is gone as well.
>
> Another tag we've been using last cycle was 'indicator-application' —
> <https://bugs.edge.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+bugs?field.tag=indicator-application>
> — for bugs related to the Application Indicators. At first the tag was
> mostly used for applications that needed to be ported to Application
> Indicators (the tag still gives you a nice list if you want to do some
> work), but later in the cycle bug reports about issues with the
> implementation of Application Indicators in the users also ended up on
> this list.
>
> I would like to ask everyone at the two lists to use the tags when
> necessary. But only when necessary, because if we want to make sure
> the list of bugs under a certain tag remains usable we need to tag
> with care. This means: don't tag bugs reported against the projects
> themselves, i.e. don't tag bug reports reported against the
> 'indicator-application' package with 'indicator-application'. The tags
> are purely for issues with those projects in _other_ applications.
>
> The complete list can be found at
> <https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Bugs/Tags#Ayatana>. Please keep the tag list
> up-to-date if you add a new one.
>
> Regards,
> --
> Sense Hofstede
> [ˈsɛn.sə ˈɦɔf.steː.də]

Ayatana nice and well, but have you considered contacting Martin Pitt on this?
He developed Apport and might be a relevant person to inform about this..