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