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On Mon, 24 Mar 2014 09:32:40 +0200
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Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@×××××.com> wrote:
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> Who is going to approve/disapprove tagable attributes and the tags |
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> themselves? How will you resolve disagreements people have? |
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Sounds like a job for QA
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> What about the case of a package maintainer that simply can't be |
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> bothered doing tags at all? |
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> I'm not against tagging per se, they can be useful. But they do have |
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> to be strictly controlled otherwise things get out of hand very |
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> quickly. Every case I've seen of software that uses a freeform |
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> tagging mechanism fails almost instantly as it becomes very |
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> inconsistent. I have one of these apps in a corporate setting right |
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> now, have you any idea how many ways people can come up with to tag |
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> the concept of "cloud"? |
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Some of these could probably be detected by meeting a treshold in
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Levenshtein distance (or some variant of) and making a suggestion to
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consider found alternative before doing the commit
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- --
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Jan Matějka | Gentoo Developer
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https://gentoo.org | Gentoo Linux
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