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author	David A. Holland
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 \title{The Swallowtail Bugtracking System}
 \author{David A. Holland}
 \date{September 3, 2012}
 \section{Introduction}
 Swallowtail is a bugtracking system meant to serve as a migration path
 for large GNATS installations.
+It is intended to address various shortcomings of GNATS that appear
+with a large database, and to provide a migration path for that
+database that does not lose information.
+As in GNATS, individual bug reports are called PRs (``problem
+reports'') and are given unique numbers from an increasing sequence.
+The database is kept in PostgreSQL.
+%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
+\section{Design Criteria}
+Swallowtail is intended for use by large projects that take their bug
+tracking seriously.
+It assumes the existence of a project server that can host the
+database, and that project developers have shell access on this
+machine.
+Unless special measures are taken, everyone with shell access to the
+host machine is assumed to be a developer and has developer-level
+access to the database.
+Developers are assumed to be grownups, at least mentally, and to not
+require either baby-sitting or padded cells.
+Developers are also assumed to be generally clueful and able to take
+advantage of direct query access to the database.
+A web interface is also provided but it allows only end-user-level
+access.
+It also does not attempt to offer the full range of query and
+annotation support.
+It is assumed that most bug report traffic will be handled by email,
+and that all public traffic will be reflected onto one or more mailing
+lists for general distribution.
+However, both new bug reports and followup traffic can be submitted
+via the web interface.
+It is not necessary to sign up to file a bug report.
+Swallowtail assumes that the database is large (as bug databases go,
+not large in DBMS terms), both in terms of the total number of bugs on
+file and the number of issues currently open.
+This means that hand-editing is not feasible.
+Manual generation of semantic indexes and tags is presumed possible
+but expensive.
+It is assumed that multiple types of semantic indexing and tagging
+will be required.
+Supporting this is the primary motivation for creating Swallowtail at
+all.
+Swallowtail is also intended to replace GNATS, so it explicitly allows
+importing an existing GNATS database without losing information.
+(One of the major problems with migrating away from GNATS, or
+migrating any bug database, is that most bug databases have a
+hardcoded schema with fixed semantics, and no two are equivalent.)
+It also is written to allow incoming bug reports to be sent with the
+GNATS send-pr tool, as this tool is deployed in the field and can be
+updated in the field only gradually.
+We are explicitly assuming that everything that talks directly to
+GNATS can be updated, rewritten, or replaced for Swallowtail, and
+that there are relatively few such things.
+Swallowtail is being written specifically to manage NetBSD's bug
+database, but it is intended to remain general enough to be useful to
+other groups who may be in a similar position.
+%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
+\section{Submitting PRs}
+New PRs can be submitted either by email or via a web form.
+The email interface accepts only structured mail in the form sent by
+the GNATS send-pr tool.
+Malformed emails are returned.
+(Sending handwritten mail to the PR submission address is not
+supported.)
+The web form requires a valid email address, as most transactions are
+handled by email.
+In the future it might be desirable to set up a scheme that allows
+entirely web-based access for end users.
+XXX: need to decide whether/how much to validate email addresses in
+the web form, and also what measures to take to prevent spam.
+Maybe an email address already in the system can be used to submit new
+PRs without any kind of further validation step.
+XXX: Also I wonder if we ought to have a blacklist for emails that
+aren't allowed to submit PRs.
+Submitting a PR generates an email to the submitter that reports the
+PR number and includes brief instructions for further actions.
+If the PR is confidential, a notice to this effect is included in the
+response mail, as well as instructions and/or a link for making the PR
+non-confidential.
+(This is because most confidential PR submissions are confidential by
+mistake.)
+The mail also includes a generated password for logging in to the web
+interface as a submitter.
+(Currently this does nothing; in the future it will allow e.g.
+unsubscribing from the PR.)
+The submitter of a PR is automatically subscribed to the PR as a
+respondent.
+Note that currently Swallowtail does not provide its own send-pr
+script, as this is not required for the initial deployment.
+There will probably be one in the future.
+NetBSD: The submission address for NetBSD will be
+swallowtail@NetBSD.org (unless we decide on something else) although
+the old gnats-bugs address will be kept for the indefinite future to
+allow old send-pr scripts to continue to work.
+GNATS: For some reason GNATS accepts a wide range of malformed
+incoming emails.
+This almost invariably makes a mess when it occurs.
+%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
+\section{Retrieving PRs}
+The web interface includes a scheme for retrieving any PR
+(except PRs marked confidential) by a well-known address.
+The search page also allows retrieving a single PR by number.
+NetBSD: The address will probably be \url{http://bugs.netbsd.org/12345}.
+In the web interface, text within the administrative or message logs
+that can be identified as a PR number is rendered as a clickable link.
+Email addresses are not displayed in the web interface at all.
+(Or maybe, in the future when this is possible, only when logged in.)
+The \texttt{query-pr} command line tool can retrieve any PR, including
+confidential PRs.
+This is done by passing it the PR number.
+As in GNATS the option \texttt{--full} prints the message and
+administrative logs as well as the base PR data.
+Use \texttt{--attach N} to retrieve an attachment.
+\texttt{query-pr} can also be used for searching.
+See below.
+%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
+\section{Commenting on PRs}
+Comments on PRs can be submitted either by email or via the PR's web
+page.
+In either case, files can be provided (as MIME attachments or via
+upload) that are filed as attachments to the PR.
+Comments on PRs can also be submitted by running \texttt{comment-pr},
+or from \texttt{browse-pr}.
+All comments go to the PR's message log.
+MIME multipart messages that include both text and HTML will be
+converted to plain text.
+MIME mail that is HTML-only will be rejected.
+The MIME content-type of mails is retained, so if non-ASCII mail
+appears it can be displayed correctly, and so remailed text is marked
+correctly.
+The comment address is the same as the submission address.
+Comments are identified by the Subject: line, which should begin with
+\texttt{Re: category/12345} like in GNATS.
+(In the future we might switch to a tidier tagging scheme, such as
+\texttt{[NetBSD 12345]} anywhere in the Subject: line, but the old
+style will have to be supported indefinitely regardless.)
+The category need not be the right category for the PR; if it is
+wrong, the right one will be substituted before the comment is filed
+or remailed.
+Also, if the Subject: line of a comment is empty except for the tag,
+the PR's synopsis will be inserted.
+Source control commit messages routed to the bug database are treated
+as comments.
+Comments are remailed to all email addresses subscribed to the PR,
+and also (if not confidential) to the mailing list associated with the
+PR's category.
+Remailed comments have a References: header that allows them to thread
+together.
+(The contents of it need to be site-configurable.)
+Comments filed on a locked PR go to the administrator queue.
+GNATS: GNATS has no web-based way of filing comments, which
+occasionally annoys people.
+GNATS: GNATS has no MIME support at all and corrupts mails with
+attachments when filing them in the database (not fatally but
+annoyingly), which aggravates everyone regularly.
+GNATS: GNATS cannot lock PRs, and old PRs often receive spam or
+misdirected mail that has to be cleaned up by hand.
+%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
+\section{Updating/Editing PRs}
+PRs are edited with \texttt{edit-pr}.
+(This is not accessible to end users.
+An end user wanting to adjust the PR state should file a comment
+requesting the change.)
+Changes made with \texttt{edit-pr} are recorded in the PR's
+administrative log.
+(XXX: some of them should be mailed out and not others, but it isn't
+clear which are which yet.)
+Each PR has the following base properties:
+\begin{itemize}
+\item
+Its number.
+(This cannot be changed.)
+\item
+The \emph{synopsis}.
+This is a short (one-line) description of the PR provided by the
+submitter.
+It can (and should) be adjusted as necessary during the lifetime of
+the PR.
+If in a new submission or conversion from GNATS the Subject: line of
+the email is not the same as the synopsis field, the effect will be
+that the synopsis is first set to the provided Subject: and then to
+the provided synopsis, generating the corresponding change entry in
+the PR's administrative log.
+\item
+The confidential flag.
+PRs marked confidential can be accessed only by developers, and
+traffic about them is not reflected to mailing lists.
+\item
+The \emph{state}.
+This is the basic state the PR is in.
+(Open, closed, pending-pullups, etc.)
+The list of states is configurable.
+States have a name (which should be an identifier), a description, and
+flags that identify if the state is a closed state, whether reminder
+and/or feedback mail should be sent.
+There is also an obsolete flag that prevents new uses of the state.
+NetBSD: we will start out with the same set of states as we have in
+GNATS, plus ``stuck''.
+(A PR is stuck if a respondent is needed and there are none.)
+XXX: when you put a PR into feedback state you should provide a
+timeout period and whether the PR should, if the timeout expires, be
+changed to ``stuck'' or ``closed''.
+\item
+The \emph{locked} flag.
+A locked PR cannot be edited or commented on until it is first
+unlocked.
+Attempting to run \texttt{edit-pr} or \texttt{comment-pr} on a locked
+PR will result in a message that the PR is locked and the option to
+unlock it or abort.
+(Filing a comment on a locked PR by email or via the web interface
+results in the comment going to the administrator queue.)
+PRs are automatically locked by the system a month after being
+closed.
+The database conversion from GNATS will mark all PRs locked that have
+been closed for more than a month.
+GNATS: GNATS does not support locked PRs.
+\item
+The database schema version that was current when the PR arrived.
+This is useful for knowing what conversions were applied to the
+data.
+The initial schema version is 1.
+Version 0 means ``converted from GNATS''.
+\item
+The date (and time) that the PR arrived.
+\item
+The date (and time) that the PR was closed, if appropriate.
+\item
+The original submitter, who remains the original submitter even if
+later unsubscribed.
+\item
+The \emph{release}, which is the Release field from GNATS.
+\item
+The \emph{environment}, which is the Environment field from GNATS.
+\item
+The administrative log, which is a list of messages generated when the
+PR is updated.
+\item
+The message log, which is a list of comments filed on the PR and their
+attachments.
+\item
+The subscription lists.
+As described below, a user can be subscribed in any of three ways
+(and more than once).
+Each subscription also has a ``batch'' flag to send out update mails
+in bundles.
+(XXX: it is not clear if this needs to be implemented up front or not.)
+\item
+Classification entries.
+There are, in general, multiple classification schemes, which come in
+different flavors.
+Each PR has a value for each classification scheme (which might be
+missing or null in some cases) whose allowable values and meaning are
+defined by the classification scheme.
+The GNATS Severity, Priority, Class, and Category fields are handled
+as classification schemes.
+(The category scheme has some special-case handling as described
+elsewhere.)
+\end{itemize}
+The mail from-address and message-ID, which are retained by GNATS, are
+in Swallowtail just handled as entries in the administrative log.
+The Description, How-To-Repeat, and Fix fields of a GNATS PR, along
+with any ``unformatted'' text that confused GNATS, are in Swallowtail
+handled as the initial entries in the PR's message log.
+Idea for the future: provide up/down vote buttons (both in the web
+page and in edit-pr) to help rank the importance of individual bugs.
+If you are also seeing a particular problem, you vote it up; if you
+are using the affected software but not seeing it, you vote it
+down.
+Or something like that.
+The data associated with users is described in another section below.
+Decoupling user data from individual PRs makes it feasible to update
+your email address in the database, which is tedious to the point of
+impossible with GNATS.
+%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
+\section{Tracking PRs}
+The simple way to track PRs is to subscribe to the mailing list(s)
+that Swallowtail traffic is reflected to.
+However, since those lists are likely to be high volume, and also do
+not carry traffic about confidential PRs, it is also possible to
+subscribe directly to individual PRs.
+In the web interface, there is a link for this.
+XXX: there should be a way to do this by email, but it isn't yet clear
+what it should be.
+Everyone subscribed to a PR receives a copy of all comments made on
+the PR, and notices of significant administrative changes.
+There are two additional modes:
+\begin{itemize}
+\item
+A \emph{respondent} is someone who is experiencing the problem and can
+provide feedback if needed.
+The original submitter is always subscribed as a respondent, but
+especially for old PRs, they may disapper and others may appear.
+\item
+A \emph{responsible party} is someone who is fixing the problem, or at
+least taking charge of seeing that it gets fixed.
+This may be a specific developer, or it may be a role account that
+looks after PRs nobody specific is handling.
+For new PRs a default responsible party can be subscribed based on the
+PR category.
+Ordinarily only one developer will be subscribed as responsible.
+\end{itemize}
+If the last respondent with \texttt{mailto} permission unsubscribes
+(or is unsubscribed) from a PR that is in feedback state, it is
+automatically switched to the stuck state.
+(XXX: but do we want to make ``stuck'' a known special case like this?)
+XXX: there should be a way to bring a PR to the attention of another
+developer short of subscribing them to it.
+In the future there should be an RSS feed for each PR, but this is not
+expected to be implemented in the first rollout.
+(There should also be individual RSS feeds for categories, and based
+on classification schemes, and whatever else.)
+GNATS: GNATS has no ability to allow anyone but the original submitter
+to function as a respondent.
+%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
+\section{Reminder Mails}
+The system periodically sends out two kinds of mail: \emph{reminder
+mail}, that goes to developers responsible for open PRs, and
+\emph{feedback mail}, that goes to the submitters (typically) of PRs
+that have been placed in feedback state.
+One reminder mail is sent to each developer subscribed as
+``responsible'' to at least one PR, listing the PR by number and
+synopsis.
+(XXX: sorted how?)
+Reminders are not sent for PRs that are in feedback.
+NetBSD: reminders are also not sent for PRs that are in
+pending-pullups state.
+Feedback mail is sent to each user subscribed as ``respondent'' to at
+least one PR.
+If the user is being nagged about three or fewer PRs, one email is
+sent for each PR, with the headers adjusted so replies get filed in
+that PR.
+This makes it easier for casual users to respond correctly.
+If the user is being nagged about more PRs than that, only one mail is
+sent, in the same form as reminder mail.
+In the future the feedback mails will repeat the message requesting
+feedback; this is not expected to be implemented for the initial
+deployment.
+%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
+\section{Statistical Reporting}
+Various scripts to gather statistics are provided, both as part of the
+web interface and to generate periodic report mail.
+These include:
+\begin{itemize}
+\item The summary statistics, originally written by Erik E. Fair for
+the NetBSD GNATS;
+\item A daily report, based on the one GNATS sends to the netbsd-bugs
+mailing list;
+\item A monthly report, based on the one I wrote to send to the
+developers list;
+\item Whatever other stuff may come up or looks interesting.
+\end{itemize}
+%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
+\section{Searching for PRs}
+The web interface provides a simple search form, which can search on
+various fields or on text in the log.
+In the future this may be made more powerful; for the time being it is
+expected to remain largely the same as the interface to GNATS.
+Command-line searching can be done with \texttt{query-pr}.
+Any value in any field can be matched; text search in the
+administrative and message logs (or anywhere in the PR) is also
+supported.
+XXX: this should take advantage of postgres's full text search tools,
+and this section should be rewritten once it's clear what that
+provides.
+There is a flag for also searching closed PRs, which are skipped by
+default.
+There is also a flag to retrieve a randomly selected PR.
+Note that the weird GNATS query-pr query language is not supported.
+(Complex queries are best issued using the SQL interface.)
+%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
+\section{Browsing the Database}
+The tool \texttt{browse-pr} is provided for examining the database.
+Its user interface is reminiscent of a newsreader.
+And, it will probably only be implemented in the future.
+%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
+\section{Direct SQL Interface}
+XXX: document this, including particularly the views that developers
+are meant to use to look at things.
+%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
+\section{Database Users}
+Unlike GNATS, the Swallowtail database tracks users explicitly.
+Each one has a username and a real name, and one or more email
+addresses.
+When more than one email address is on file, one of the addresses is
+selected for sending mail.
+The Organization field that GNATS stores and send-pr provides is filed
+with the email address that sent it.
+The database also tracks the last time mail was received from each
+address, as this is often useful when sorting out problems.
+Each address also has a ``web password'' attached to it.
+This is generated randomly when the address is first encountered
+in a PR submission and sent back to the user in the response to the
+submission.
+In the future it is meant to allow logging into the web site as a
+submitter; for now it does nothing.
+Each user also has the following permission bits:
+\begin{itemize}
+\item
+\texttt{mailto} -- if this is false, Swallowtail will not send any
+email to this user.
+If the only users subscribed to a PR as respondents have mail
+disabled (or there are no users subscribed as respondents) setting the
+PR to feedback state will fail.
+This flag can be used for users whose mail bounces, or who are
+otherwise no longer available.
+\item
+\texttt{responsible} -- if this is true, the user is allowed to be
+responsible for open PRs.
+This should normally be set for all developers, and only developers,
+and should be cleared when a developer quits.
+(Any open PRs they are responsible for should be reassigned.)
+It should also be set for role accounts that are responsible by
+default when nobody else is.
+\item
+\texttt{oldresponsible} -- if this is true, the user is allowed to be
+responsible only for closed PRs.
+This should be set if \texttt{responsible} is set, and should also be
+left set when a developer quits.
+\item
+\texttt{editpr} -- if this is true, the user is allowed to run
+\texttt{edit-pr} and make changes to the database.
+This should be set for all developers, and only developers, and should
+be cleared when a developer quits.
+\item
+\texttt{admin} -- if this is true, the user is allowed to perform
+administrative tasks.
+\end{itemize}
+Note that while all developers are assumed to have a username, end
+users will in general not have one.
+XXX: what's the mechanism for updating user information?
+%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
+\section{Administrator Queue}
+The database contains an explicit queue, or in fact several explicit
+queues, of issues requiring administrator attention.
+The following subsections describe the components of the administrator
+queue.
+The administrator queue is accessible only to users with the
+\texttt{admin} permission bit set.
+\subsection{Comments filed on locked PRs.}
+When a comment is made on a PR that is locked, instead of being
+applied to the PR it is placed in the administrator queue for manual
+attention.
+The possible actions are:
+\begin{itemize}
+\item defer: put it off for tomorrow;
+\item accept: add it to the PR, for valid/intended comments;
+\item new: create a new PR instead;
+\item reroute: send to another PR instead, for mistyped PR numbers;
+\item bounce: return to sender, for non-spam with no clear other choice;
+\item discard: erase it, as comments on locked PRs are often spam.
+\end{itemize}
+Accepting a comment on a locked PR automatically unlocks it, and by
+default also reopens it.
+\subsection{Feedback mail bounces.}
+When bounced mail arrives, Swallowtail examines it to try to determine
+which PR and which user it applies to.
+If it appears to be a bounce generated from feedback mail (or from
+reminder mail) it goes into this queue.
+The full mail is retained for inspection.
+The possible actions are:
+\begin{itemize}
+\item defer: put it off for tomorrow;
+\item count: just add one to the number of bounces recorded;
+\item changeaddr: change to a different address for the same user;
+\item nomail: inhibit sending further mail to the user;
+\item discard: delete the mail from the queue.
+\end{itemize}
+% XXX the count used by ``count'' needs to be described in the user
+% data section.
+\subsection{Other mail bounces.}
+Bounced mail that can be associated with a PR and/or user but is not
+feedback goes into this queue.
+The actions are the same as for feedback bounces.
+\subsection{Junk mail.}
+All other unrecognized mail goes into this queue.
+The possible actions are:
+\begin{itemize}
+\item defer: put it off for tomorrow;
+\item forward: forward it somewhere (normally to yourself);
+\item discard: erase it.
+\end{itemize}
+(XXX: maybe this stuff should just be forwarded on or dumped out into
+a mailbox somewhere.)
+%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
+\section{Classification Schemes}
+Here is a quick discussion of the classification schemes that we
+expect to use, or might use.
+\subsection{Enumerated classifications}
+\paragraph{Category.}
+The part of the system affected, in broad terms.
+The same as the GNATS ``Category'' field.
+This classification is special-cased in some places, at least for now;
+in the future it might make sense to allow those places to do matching
+on arbitrary classifications.
+\paragraph{Class.}
+The GNATS ``Class'' field: \texttt{sw-bug}, \texttt{doc-bug},
+\texttt{change-request}, etc.
+\paragraph{Severity.}
+The GNATS ``Severity'' field.
+\paragraph{Priority.}
+The GNATS ``Priority'' field.
+\subsection{Text classifications}
+\paragraph{Manpage.}
+The name of the nearest man page to where the problem appears to be.
+FreeBSD has been using this as a tagging scheme for some time.
+\paragraph{Package.}
+The name of the package affected.
+(For pkgsrc bugs only.)
+\subsection{Hierarchical taxonomies}
+\paragraph{Subsystem.}
+The hierarchical taxonomy I've been using for the buglists web page.
+\paragraph{Consequences.}
+A hierarchical taxonomy of the results of the problem (annoyance,
+system crash, remote root exploit, etc.)
+\subsection{Tag sets.}
+\paragraph{Releng.}
+Tags like \texttt{6-CRITICAL}.
+%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
+\section{Other Future Features}
+Some other things that aren't likely to be deployed immediately but
+are worth considering later:
+\begin{itemize}
+\item Have a way to note dependencies among PRs, as in 12345 is
+stalled until 24680 is fixed.
+(This does not occur often enough in practice to be a priority.)
+\item Have a way to massedit a group of PRs; for example, put all PRs
+against a particular driver or filesystem or whatever into feedback
+after major fixes.
+\item There should be administrator buttons for moving comments to
+different PRs, for e.g. misfiled comment notices.
+\item It should be possible for users to set personal tags/priorities
+for annotating and/or sorting nag mail.
+(E.g. sort by priority, or age, or time since last change, etc.)
+\item It should be possible to blacklist Cc: of certain addresses
+(particularly internal lists) in bug traffic.
+\item Any new send-pr script should be configurable by the user with
+return addresses and default values for organization and so forth.
+\item It would be nice to be able to track PR status separately (or
+semi-separately) for release branches.
+However, it isn't clear how to do this without making a cumbersome
+mess.
+\item It might be useful to be able to explicitly merge duplicate PRs,
+without either losing information or creating a confused mess of
+interleaved comments.
+\item It might be worth adding threading for comments.
+\item We should figure out how to make Google see and index the pages
+for each PR.
+Or maybe just the open ones.
+\item It would be nice if the web page for each PR had browse features
+like links for ``show all PRs of this priority'' or ``show all PRs
+from this submitter'' and whatnot.
+\item Lists of PRs in the web interface should have a sidebar to let
+you narrow the list, and a list of the filters currently applied (like
+e.g. NewEgg's product searches).
+Also, the sort order should be defined (unlike GNATS) and selectable.
+\item It might be worthwhile to allow PR subscriptions in a brief mode
+where all you get is ``Joe commented on PR 12345''.
+\item We will eventually want a way to turn MIME blobs already in the
+database into attachments.
+\item Should have per-user tags that are more or less private.
+\item Should have per-user tags that are public.
+\end{itemize}
+%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
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