Tag consolidation

Brian Murray brian at ubuntu.com
Wed Dec 26 16:53:26 UTC 2007


On Thu, Dec 20, 2007 at 03:03:38AM +0200, Murat Gunes wrote:
> 
> On Mon, 2007-12-17 at 20:38 -0800, Brian Murray wrote:
> 
> > 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.
> 
> I think it's quite fine to have a tag with this purpose, but especially
> for someone who hasn't read the description (in a while),
> "needs-improvement" may look as if it's redundant with "Incomplete", as
> if it suggests that the original report itself needs improving.
> Especially since most bugs which are tagged with it will be in
> "Incomplete" status, the tag itself should emphasize the fact that a
> triager is offering mentoring for triaging bug, rather than the fact
> that the bug needs improvement, which is what the status most likely
> already conveys. 
> 
> Thus, I suggest replacing it with an equivalent of
> "triage-mentoring-available", which is quite long, but probably still
> usable if nobody comes up with a better idea.
> 
> I've also edited the description; let me know if it's fine.

Changing the name of the tag sounds reasonable and the description looks
good.

Thanks again, 
-- 
Brian Murray                                                 @ubuntu.com
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