On 08/02/19 08:57, Graeme Fitzpatrick wrote:
On Thu, 7 Feb 2019 at 23:59, Paul Allen <pla16...@gmail.com
<mailto:pla16...@gmail.com>> wrote:
There's a hierarchy of tag acceptability based upon how much
forethought has gone into it.
Proposed and approved. Proposed and rejected. Proposed and
lapsed. Widely used.
Used once or twice. Used once by somebody who didn't know there
was already an approved tag.
Ideally we document as many of those as possible and indicate how
acceptable they are with the
status.
My point was that "proposed" is not the same as "informal."
Proposing a tag is part of a formal
discussion process that may lead to acceptance or rejection.
Informal is me wanting to tag
some type of object, being unable to find a suitable tag (or being
too lazy to look), and just making it
up ad hoc. As we had with landuse=clearing a while ago. Which
should probably be documented
as deprecated along with the correct way to do it (multipolygon
with an inner area, maybe without
any other tag if you're unsure what is there other than
not-outer). Informal or ad hoc would be
somebody made up a tag for which there isn't already a better
alternative and it isn't yet in
widespread use.
So using a real example here, lets go back to my shop=caravan from a
few weeks back.
I asked what we should tag a caravan dealer as & somebody replied just
use shop=caravan as it's already in use, as it was, 140 odd times, but
not documented.
I then created a page for it, which, after discussions & taking in
other points of view, was modified several times, along with several
other pages for possible alternatives, suggesting people use the
=caravan tag.
As the shop=caravan tag was already in use, I didn't put up a formal
RFC or ask for a vote - should I have? (& no-one complained at the
time that I hadn't)
So would you call that tag approved, widely used, informal or what?
The rate of use can be seen with the taginfo information. Lets not
duplicate it in the status information with some subjective term.
Status presently has (together with my understand of what that means);
blank - this is what I use to create a new page. I leave the status
value blank. Probably interpreted as 'undefined'
--- Part of the proposal process --
draft - draft for a proposal
proposed - a new proposal, usually in 'request for comments' stage
voting - a proposal in 'voting' stage where people can vote on it
rejected - a proposal that has been rejected by voting
accepted - a proposal that has been accepted by voting
abandoned - a proposal that has been dormant for some time
cancled - a proposal that has been cancelled by the proposer (note the
spelling)
--- Outside the proposal process --
undefined/invalid - a proposal that has no status, or an unrecognised
status value?
in_use - a tag that is in wide use
defacto - a tag that existed before the formal proposal process and is
in wide use - viewed as similar to approved
depreciated - a tag that is being replaced with another tag or other tags.
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I think any other values are going to be interpreted as 'undefined'.
The status value is really a wiki page thing and should be discussed
there? At least some notification that this is being disscused here
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