Please Document Launchpad Release Tags and Their Semantics

[holmanb]

Deb package release process make use of Launchpad tags (ex: verification-needed) to communicate the current state of a proposed change on Launchpad. Example:

tags: 	added: verification-failed verification-failed-noble
removed: verification-needed verification-needed-noble
tags: 	added: regression-proposed 

These don't appear to have reference documentation anywhere, yet these tags drive processes across teams and projects and have agreed-upon meanings. It is obvious what these tags mean to some. For new or infrequent contributors, a lack of documentation forces a dependency on others to contribute.

As a start, I propose that we add a reference page which defines these terms. Once that is done, a flow graph would be very convenient to help external individuals quickly understand work that needs to happen and its current state.

[panlinux]

FWIW, the verification-* tags are documented in the ubuntu SRU page at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/StableReleaseUpdates

[basak]

There's a reference page here: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Bugs/Tags I guess we should link to it, but from where exactly?

[bryceharrington]

There is also https://dev.launchpad.net/LaunchpadBugTags for the officially accepted ones.

[cpaelzer]

Since this is a pure SRU-process thing and it now has better-than-wiki docs - with code and bug tracking in the project - should this request move there if considered not sufficiently explained?.

AFAICS there we have these two right now:

• https://canonical-sru-docs.readthedocs-hosted.com/en/latest/internal/
• https://canonical-sru-docs.readthedocs-hosted.com/en/latest/howto/release/
• So much about the tag that I could see. the topic of verification is explained more widely https://canonical-sru-docs.readthedocs-hosted.com/en/latest/search/?q=verification&check_keywords=yes&area=default

So report there and close it here then?
@holmanb WDYT?