Fwd: REST APIs, and Tags

[Frédéric Buclin]

Le 08. 12. 09 16:56, Gervase Markham a écrit :
> Well, some people use the status whiteboard for English text rather than
> tags. But you are right, we might be able to collapse that in too.
> Great! :-) Simplicity is a win for everyone.

No, I'm still in favor of keeping both. The status whiteboard is in no
way used to tag bugs.


> The status whiteboard, keywords, flags and now our current tag
> implementation are four attempts over the course of Bugzilla's life to
> get "tagging" (in the broad sense) right. We need to accept that all
> four attempts missed the mark in one way or another, and that the rest
> of the world has figured it out.

Merging keywords and flags could make sense. But the status whiteboard
deserves another purpose, as said above, and private tags, even if the
backend code is merged with keywords/flags, should still be visually
displayed differently. More below.


> Why would that be a problem in practice when it isn't that a problem on
> Twitter or Flickr or the many other sites which use tags?

You don't find everything you want as easily on these sites with tags.


> I think it's a matter of user expectation. Do we set up the expectation
> that the personal tags you add to a bug are themselves private
> information, or just not-displayed-by-default information?

Private information! Your comparison with flags is totally out of topic.
We never mentioned that flags can only be seen and queried by those who
can set them. For private tags, I would hate that someone can happily
query for bugs I tagged as "stupid_ideas" or some other tags I use or
could use. I don't like Big Brother.


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