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| + | As stated on the [http://debtags.alioth.debian.org/faceted.html debtags website]: | ||
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| + | ''Drawing a bit freely from the literature of Faceted Classification, a facet is a group of tags which describe the same quality of a package. Package Tags are organized in Facets, that represent different points of view from which to look at the package archive. For example, you could have a "Usage" facet with tags about what a program is intended to be used for, or you could have a "Media" facet with tags about what kind of information a program is able to process, a "Technology" facet about the technology a package uses, and so on. With this approach, every tag is situated in a specific context, and has a clear meaning. Also, tags from different facets shed light on packages from different points of view, giving "depth" to its categorization. Take something tagged with "Use::Chatting", "Technology::IRC", "Role::Server": it has a remarkable level of detail, and tells almost everything we need to know about what the package does.'' | ||
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| + | I'm not sure if this will help us here. We would need to specify a lot of tags for packages. Question is: how are we going to display this in the application manager or website without being confusing --[[User:xfade|xfade]] 12:02, 5 August 2008 (UTC) | ||
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The Debian archive maintainers [http://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-archive.html#s-subsections provide] the authoritative list of sections. At present, they are: ''admin, comm, devel, doc, editors, electronics, embedded, games, gnome, graphics, hamradio, interpreters, kde, libs, libdevel, mail, math, misc, net, news, oldlibs, otherosfs, perl, python, science, shells, sound, tex, text, utils, web, x11.'' | The Debian archive maintainers [http://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-archive.html#s-subsections provide] the authoritative list of sections. At present, they are: ''admin, comm, devel, doc, editors, electronics, embedded, games, gnome, graphics, hamradio, interpreters, kde, libs, libdevel, mail, math, misc, net, news, oldlibs, otherosfs, perl, python, science, shells, sound, tex, text, utils, web, x11.'' | ||
Revision as of 12:02, 5 August 2008
This wiki page serves as a discussion page where we will try to find a better way to categorize packages in the repositories.
This proposal is coordinated by Niels Breet.
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Proposal
This is a DRAFT UNDER DISCUSSION. You can help reaching conclusions. Please add your comments to the discussion page. This proposal is part of the Extras repository process definition.
Maemo Packaging Policy
The Maemo Packaging Policy lists the following sections:
- accessories
- communication
- games
- multimedia
- office
- other
- programming
- support
- themes
- tools
One of the benefits of using official categories from this list, is that they will appear correctly localized in the Application Manager.
Problem
People feel the need to create new categories, because the current list is too limited.
Another problem is that some categories aren't very descriptive. What applications go in to tools, support or accessories?
Proposed solutions
Additional categories
We could add more categories to the official list. To do this we need to define a list of categories that need to be added. Please add your proposed category here:
- desktop: A category for desktop plugins. --xfade 15:13, 4 August 2008 (UTC)
Debtags
Debian Package Tags: Faceted Classification
As stated on the debtags website:
Drawing a bit freely from the literature of Faceted Classification, a facet is a group of tags which describe the same quality of a package. Package Tags are organized in Facets, that represent different points of view from which to look at the package archive. For example, you could have a "Usage" facet with tags about what a program is intended to be used for, or you could have a "Media" facet with tags about what kind of information a program is able to process, a "Technology" facet about the technology a package uses, and so on. With this approach, every tag is situated in a specific context, and has a clear meaning. Also, tags from different facets shed light on packages from different points of view, giving "depth" to its categorization. Take something tagged with "Use::Chatting", "Technology::IRC", "Role::Server": it has a remarkable level of detail, and tells almost everything we need to know about what the package does.
I'm not sure if this will help us here. We would need to specify a lot of tags for packages. Question is: how are we going to display this in the application manager or website without being confusing --xfade 12:02, 5 August 2008 (UTC)
Reference
The Debian archive maintainers provide the authoritative list of sections. At present, they are: admin, comm, devel, doc, editors, electronics, embedded, games, gnome, graphics, hamradio, interpreters, kde, libs, libdevel, mail, math, misc, net, news, oldlibs, otherosfs, perl, python, science, shells, sound, tex, text, utils, web, x11.