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List:       gentoo-dev
Subject:    Re: [gentoo-dev] New app-eselect category?
From:       "Jorge Manuel B. S. Vicetto" <jmbsvicetto () gentoo ! org>
Date:       2009-05-30 14:24:34
Message-ID: 4A2141A2.5040007 () gentoo ! org
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Tiziano Müller wrote:
> Am Dienstag, den 26.05.2009, 17:00 -0700 schrieb Josh Saddler:
>> AllenJB wrote:
>>> I'd favor tags over increasing the category
>>> levels, tho I'm not convinced either is necessary at the current time
>>> (tho tags might make searching easier, in some ways).
>> Heck yes! Tags are a good idea. The idea's been raised on -dev a few
>> times. I suppose they're not (yet) essential, but from a user point of
>> view, if the tools supported searching for tags buried in metadata.xml,
>> it would make life much, much nicer.
> 
> And with the risk to repeat myself: herds can already been seen as tags.
> So, my proposal still stands: change the current herds into teams and
> write them in metadata.xml as such:
> 
> <maintainer>
>   <team>cpp</team>
> </maintainer>
> 
> and then using <herd> as tags.

The largest issue I see with the idea of embedding tags in the tree is
that many users think that tags are great, but for them to be *really*
great, the tagging should be done outside of the tree to also allow them
to do the tagging.
Tags in the tree would be another framework at the hands of the devs and
would suffer from the same limitations as the tree - limited dev pool,
shortness of time, too many packages, etc. So at least some users would
like to have that framework open to them so they could contribute and
they hope provide a larger pool of people, with quite a bit of time in
their hands and more than willing to give back.
I like the idea of letting users join the tagging and think it's a way
of fostering the community belonging of Gentoo - besides I don't think
we need to "secure" the tags. I don't have any input on how to implement
that idea, though.


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Regards,

Jorge Vicetto (jmbsvicetto) - jmbsvicetto at gentoo dot org
Gentoo- forums / Userrel / Devrel / SPARC / KDE
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