On Sat, 2006-12-02 at 22:23 +0000, Enrico Zini wrote: > At the beginning I was of the idea that if a > maintainer wants to take control of the tag they can do it, and if > they get some tag wrong we can handle it through bug reports. > > Now I wonder if it isn't more trouble than it's worth. > > The parallel with section/priority unfortunately stands only up to some > point: there's much more information to be maintained with tags, and > it's very hard to concentrate in a single person or small group both the > manpower and the know-how to maintain the information well.
So you are saying, that to do a good tagging you need to be pretty familiar with the vocabulary. I think we should do everything in our power to counteract that requirement! I have one main reason: if the vocabulary is so complicated, that the average maintainer won't get the tagging right, it is highly likely, that the average person won't be able to understand the vocabulary to perform a good search. I believe, that the current "suggested tags" feature in the web-editor (and the editor as a whole that is), brings us a big step into enabling tagging for everyone. I do not believe, that the current vocabulary is not understandable for an average user - assuming a good guidance. > The model that seems to have most potential for most tags is to have > people adopt tags or facets, and ensure that the right packages are > properly tagged with the tags they adopted. I believe the "let the maintainer do it"-approach is better in the long run. Packaging a new piece of software is already a job that usually takes several hours. Spending 5 minutes to do a decent tagging does not sound like it is to much of an effort. That assumes that there is a good tagging tool, which supports selecting tags for new packages. That being said, I am aware, that this would be a long term goal since we need to convince every package maintainer that tagging is an important facet of the packaging process. Regards Ben _______________________________________________ Debtags-devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/debtags-devel
