On 10/21/19 7:54 PM, Jan Engelhardt wrote:
On Monday 2019-10-21 10:19, Ludwig Nussel wrote:
Looking at the discussion here I can already foresee the next fights in submit requests where people argue over which tags to put on a package.
You can't have it both ways. Either people fight over the entry's value, or they don't care. History tells me they staticially won't care.
So I wonder whether to maybe dodge that mine field completely and store tags aka groups outside of packages.
Outside of packages is disconnected metadata, and there seems to be a reservation about such, depending on the interpretation of https://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-factory/2019-10/msg00115.html
This is just an illustration in the past that people haven't put in the effort to create / keep the data up to date, from looking at the state of our current group system i'm pretty sure the same arguments apply, yes its slightly better because everything has something (if everything having something is even better) but much of the data is inconsistent garbage because people have just picked the easiest path to making a bot happy (and many have complained about it to this list), now that the bot's gone I don't see it being any different unless people who aren't maintainers step up to keep it good (because many maintainers don't care). If people other then maintainers are going to step up and do it in many way's it makes sense for it to be done in a way maintainers don't need to touch it. If a group of non maintainers are willing to keep metadata up to date inside packages then they will be willing to externally as well. If they are not we already as a project decided they shouldn't have to 15 months ago and most haven't changed there mind since. -- Simon Lees (Simotek) http://simotek.net Emergency Update Team keybase.io/simotek SUSE Linux Adelaide Australia, UTC+10:30 GPG Fingerprint: 5B87 DB9D 88DC F606 E489 CEC5 0922 C246 02F0 014B