[Reportbug-maint] Bug#613716: reportbug: Don't add release tags

[Sandro Tosi]

On Thu, Feb 17, 2011 at 15:00, Julien Cristau <jcristau at debian.org> wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 16, 2011 at 21:31:44 +0100, Kurt Roeckx wrote:
>
>> On Wed, Feb 16, 2011 at 09:07:39PM +0100, Sandro Tosi wrote:
>> > Hi Kurt,
>> >
>> > Those tags are presented only when mode is 'advanced' or 'expert':
>> >
>> >   * bin/reportbug, reportbug/{debianbts.py, utils.py}
>> >     - don't present suite tags ('sid', 'lenny', etc) when running in modes lower
>> >       than 'advanced'; thanks to Julien Cristau for the report; Closes: #583890
>> >
>> > Since it was requested by a release team member (the audience for
>> > those tags, mainly), and since we should give 'experienced' reportbug
>> > users some freedom, I'm in favor to leave the situation as it is, but
>> > I'm adding Julien in cc to hear his opinion on that.
>>
>> I'd say that those tags should probably only be set by release
>> team or qa team people, in most cases not even at report time.
>>
>> Maybe we could add warnings in some cases, like when sid is not
>> selected?
>>
> Yeah these tags seem to be abused more often than not, so if offering
> them in advanced mode isn't enough to stop that then maybe we should
> just not give that option.  Things have gotten better after #583890 was
> fixed though IME.

Ok, so we have 3 possibilities from here (I'll list them in my order
of preference):

1. only show those tags in expert mode
2. (it can be merged with 1.) show a confirmation menu when one of
these tags is selected
3. remove those tags completely.

I'd prefer not to go with 3. (ok, experienced people should know about
those tags anyhow, without the help of reportbug, but a help is always
welcome, ain't it? :), and I'm quite open to 1. and 2.

What do you think about it?

Cheers,
-- 
Sandro Tosi (aka morph, morpheus, matrixhasu)
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