-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA512 On Mon, 24 Mar 2014 09:32:40 +0200 Alan McKinnon <alan.mckin...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Who is going to approve/disapprove tagable attributes and the tags > themselves? How will you resolve disagreements people have?
Sounds like a job for QA > > What about the case of a package maintainer that simply can't be > bothered doing tags at all? > > I'm not against tagging per se, they can be useful. But they do have > to be strictly controlled otherwise things get out of hand very > quickly. Every case I've seen of software that uses a freeform > tagging mechanism fails almost instantly as it becomes very > inconsistent. I have one of these apps in a corporate setting right > now, have you any idea how many ways people can come up with to tag > the concept of "cloud"? Some of these could probably be detected by meeting a treshold in Levenshtein distance (or some variant of) and making a suggestion to consider found alternative before doing the commit - -- Jan Matějka | Gentoo Developer https://gentoo.org | Gentoo Linux GPG: A33E F5BC A9F6 DAFD 2021 6FB6 3EBF D45B EEB6 CA8B -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.22 (GNU/Linux) iQEcBAEBCgAGBQJTMS9uAAoJEIN+7RD5ejah5bIH/i6dERPVS2i/rd76HQRHjynr w7C4N5OQi+cN339f2/JusPwxrfBrUiN7ulsgWACMPz4s8/ZA9yrsRRnqvC2P8bnR 25n94z0vUZa3K5V3MIuDugfKa6nwVY9gZHZj6BP8KNnl84ETasxpG5lR3XTqs0az 4pJG18rbwtk22+7q38hXQv9/vRfAZH3Lx5ilG1+F0+I39miXW6ylsS37ovkdrQ97 rUvNasT+5GcB6jd3tXDQuOJs8UgGuBNgTjzZfrk5Y+6+Dqj2oL5ERRONOS6UN5RB TYGw9KI1Rj7pRWE1gIi/fhoXbugj0DZArRC8fA3D2NEyYFIStopjI0hI3bXljFs= =Z9+y -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
