On Sun, Mar 23, 2014 at 2:57 AM, Tom Wijsman <tom...@gentoo.org> wrote:
> On Sat, 22 Mar 2014 15:33:27 -0700 > Alec Warner <anta...@gentoo.org> wrote: > > > https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Package_Tags > > > > Object or forever hold your peace. > > > > Or argue for 100 posts, either way. > > A possible problem with this would be whether much maintainers would be > concerned enough to spend their time on this. By spending time thinking > up with tags you give to a package, you lose some time working on a bug. > > Adding some quick tags one can think of does "something" when you're > busy; but I'm not sure if limited time would yield a good set of tags. > > Crowdsourcing, as brought forward[1] by rich0, could yield a far more > rich set of tags; together with a small bit of moderation for quality. > > Crowdsourcing poses its own set of problems, most of which I'm not eager to design software around. I'd rather deploy the GLEP, wait 6 months, see if it failed, and if so, do something else (or nothing else, and simply repeal it.) -A > [1]: http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.gentoo.devel/90693 > > -- > With kind regards, > > Tom Wijsman (TomWij) > Gentoo Developer > > E-mail address : tom...@gentoo.org > GPG Public Key : 6D34E57D > GPG Fingerprint : C165 AF18 AB4C 400B C3D2 ABF0 95B2 1FCD 6D34 E57D > >
