Individuals or members of a team may want to use bug tags that cannot be added or removed by anyone else, similar to how a bug's Importance cannot be changed by people outside that project.
For example, the Ubuntu kernel team wants to mark particular bugs as particularly deserving of their attention; this would lead to arguments if anyone else had permission to add or remove the tag too.
Individuals may also want to have their own lists of bugs they'd like to work on when they have time (bug 487272).
One way of implementing this would be for each person and team to have control over any tag starting with their Launchpad ID followed by a particular character that isn't allowed in either Launchpad IDs or tag names. (This character should not be a colon, because that should be reserved for advanced operators as in bug 5594.) For example, members of the Canonical QA team would be able to add or remove tags like "canonical-qa.kernel", "canonical-qa.desktop", "canonical-qa.server", in a bug report without anyone else having permission to add or remove them.
If a person or team changed their Launchpad ID, or was merged into another, all their tags would need to be changed too. And if a person's account was deactivated, or a team ceased to exist, all their tags should be removed, though this would not need to be done synchronously.
This is not the same as bug 159036, which is about having tags that are officially recognized but that can be added or removed by anyone.
On Wed, Feb 20, 2008 at 05:27:29AM -0000, Matthew Paul Thomas wrote:
> One way of implementing this would be for each project and distribution
> to have control over any tag starting with the ID of that
> project/
> Drivers would be able to add or remove "ubuntu.kernel", "ubuntu.mid",
> "ubuntu.partner", etc tags in a bug report without anyone else having
> permission to add or remove them.
This is not a bad idea. Couldn't we have it on a person and team level
instead? It should solve the same use case, while solving another use
case as well; being able to create bug listings that only I'm interested
in.