Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC GLEP 1005: Package Tags

[Jan Matejka <yac@gentoo.org>]

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On Mon, 24 Mar 2014 09:32:40 +0200
Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@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

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