On Sat, Mar 22, 2014 at 7:48 PM, hasufell <hasuf...@gentoo.org> wrote: >> https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Package_Tags > Sounds good, but how do we get consistency in there? I mean... this > only works if we have some sort of consensus about tag names, at least > more common ones.
The alternative to consistency/etc is crowdsourcing, but there is no way to get that in metadata.xml (unless you allow it to be edited by some more accessible service). The whole build-it-and-they-will-come approach tends to work better if you're doing crowdsourcing. As it stands this is more of a top-down approach, and that usually works better if the use scenarios are understood in advance. Rich