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Tiziano Müller wrote: |
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> Am Dienstag, den 26.05.2009, 17:00 -0700 schrieb Josh Saddler: |
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>> AllenJB wrote: |
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>>> I'd favor tags over increasing the category |
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>>> levels, tho I'm not convinced either is necessary at the current time |
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>>> (tho tags might make searching easier, in some ways). |
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>> Heck yes! Tags are a good idea. The idea's been raised on -dev a few |
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>> times. I suppose they're not (yet) essential, but from a user point of |
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>> view, if the tools supported searching for tags buried in metadata.xml, |
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>> it would make life much, much nicer. |
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> And with the risk to repeat myself: herds can already been seen as tags. |
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> So, my proposal still stands: change the current herds into teams and |
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> write them in metadata.xml as such: |
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> <maintainer> |
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> <team>cpp</team> |
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> </maintainer> |
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> and then using <herd> as tags. |
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The largest issue I see with the idea of embedding tags in the tree is |
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that many users think that tags are great, but for them to be *really* |
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great, the tagging should be done outside of the tree to also allow them |
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to do the tagging. |
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Tags in the tree would be another framework at the hands of the devs and |
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would suffer from the same limitations as the tree - limited dev pool, |
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shortness of time, too many packages, etc. So at least some users would |
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like to have that framework open to them so they could contribute and |
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they hope provide a larger pool of people, with quite a bit of time in |
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their hands and more than willing to give back. |
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I like the idea of letting users join the tagging and think it's a way |
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of fostering the community belonging of Gentoo - besides I don't think |
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we need to "secure" the tags. I don't have any input on how to implement |
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that idea, though. |
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Regards, |
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Jorge Vicetto (jmbsvicetto) - jmbsvicetto at gentoo dot org |
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Gentoo- forums / Userrel / Devrel / SPARC / KDE |
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