Please perform a massive tag purge for the Ubuntu project

[Siegfried Gevatter]

Please delete all tags in the Ubuntu project that are only being used by one or less active bugs and aren't described on https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Bugs/Tags.

The list of tags, with 1736 of them, is totally useless at the moment. With this action 1152 different tags would be removed, so that only 584 (a 44% of them) would remain.

For more information see:
https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-devel/2007-December/024831.html

Thanks!

[Marco Rodrigues (gothicx)]

I also agree with this :-)

How about to add to system check a cleanup routine, to clean it up every month for example.

[Marco Rodrigues (gothicx)]

Launchpad's Bug Tracker allows you to create ad-hoc groups of bugs with tagging.

https://help.launchpad.net/TaggingLaunchpadBugs

[James Henstridge (jamesh)]

If I understand you correctly, the problem is more to do with presentation of the tags list. If the infrequently used, non-standardised tags were omitted from the tags list portlet would you still consider them harmful?

[Martin Pitt (pitti)]

I agree that tags should be cleaned up and standardized; if everyone invents their own tags, that makes them useless for finding anything. So there should be some kind of policy for introducing new tags preferably, after cleaning up the current set of tags.

[James Henstridge (jamesh)]

One thing to keep in mind is that some of the Ubuntu bugs have multiple contexts (e.g. upstream inkscape and the Ubuntu inkscape package). The tags are attached to the bug rather than the bug in a particular context, so simply wiping all tags that are not Ubuntu-specific is a bad idea.

I am still interested in determining what problem you are trying to solve though. If adding a tag not found in Ubuntu's standard set to a bug did not affect the tags list for Ubuntu, would there still be a problem?

On the subject of encouraging use of standard tags, perhaps it'd be worth improving the UI to make it easy to apply standardised tags.

[Matthew Paul Thomas (mpt)]

See bug 59154 (not showing all tags in the bug listing) and bug 159036 ("official" tags for projects).

[Matthew Paul Thomas (mpt)]

I think this bug report is invalid. The problem described is accurate, that "The list of tags, with 1736 of them, is totally useless". But the proposed solution is inefficient (it would need redoing every few months), and it assumes that none of the tags currently used once will ever become popular. (All of the currently-popular tags were, at some point, used in only one bug report!) I think bug 59154 represents a better solution -- if this report and that one concentrated on the problem rather than assuming a solution, they'd be duplicates.

[Christian Reis (kiko)]

See https://bugs.edge.launchpad.net/malone/+bug/59154/comments/13 for my considerations on how to manage the tag explosion for Ubuntu.

If there are specific tags to be cleaned up for Ubuntu, they should be cleaned up -- ask on answers.launchpad.net and we'll sort them out.