Date: Mon, 7 Nov 2005 07:55:39 -0800 From: "Michael C. Shultz" <ringworm01@gmail.com> To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Cc: ports@freebsd.org, Anton Berezin <tobez@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Request for comments: port-tags Message-ID: <200511070755.40250.ringworm01@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20051107154634.GA40923@heechee.tobez.org> References: <20051107154634.GA40923@heechee.tobez.org>
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On Monday 07 November 2005 07:46, Anton Berezin wrote: > Hi folks, > > I would like to point http://bsd2.be/port-tags/ to you, and hopefully > get you to check it out and make your comments and suggestions. > > Below is the contents of http://bsd2.be/about-port-tags.html: > > Port-tags is like del.icio.us [http://del.icio.us/] for FreeBSD ports > collection. > > The idea is to make ports classification easier and more convenient. > Instead of using predefined and limited set of port categories, > port-tags uses short one-word descriptions called tags. A port can have > an arbitrary number of tags associated with it. One can use the web > interface (and maybe a command-line interface in the future) to view > only the ports that have particular tags associated with them. This > process is very efficient in narrowing down the number of sought ports. > > Debian has something similar called Debtags > [http://debtags.alioth.debian.org/]. The main difference of Debtags and > port-tags is not the absense or presense of particular frontends. > Rather, Debtags takes potentially more fruitful approach of getting the > community to define the tags, while for now, port-tags uses an > algorithmic approach to deduce the tags from the existing categories and > from ports' COMMENT field. Let's see how this works out and extend it to > a community-based project at a later stage. > > The idea of port-tags came up in a conversation I had with Autrijus Tang > a couple of weeks ago. Since then, I discussed it with various people > (most notably with Lars Thegler, Erwin Lansing, and Florent Thoumie) and > finally implemented it. > > In its current form, the service is not updated live. Instead, as it > depends on the INDEX file, and the index file gets updated once a day, > so does the port-tags database. > > If it looks too similar to del.icio.us, it is because for this early > alpha version I just stole the stylesheets from there. > > If you have any comments and suggestions with regard to port-tags, I > would like to hear about it. Is it useful? How can we make it more > useful? What are the shortcomings? Any show-stoppers which prevent you > from using it? > I'd like to see a copy of the tags data base. Providing it in a similar maner as the INDEX file might come in handly. -Mike
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