Am Donnerstag, 17. Oktober 2019, 19:35:24 CEST schrieb Ronan Arraes Jardim Chagas:
Hi!
Just to add my point of view. I have nothing against the removal of the Group tag. In fact, in all packages I have already created for openSUSE, I can’t remember only one that did not make me confused about what to choose in the Group tag. On many occasions, there were 3 or 4 tags that fit.
Most notably is Julia. It is a scientific language, but also a tool for many analysis. It can easily fit all the following categories:
Development/Languages/Other Productivity/Clustering/Computing Productivity/Databases/Tools Productivity/Scientific/Astronomy Productivity/Scientific/Chemistry Productivity/Scientific/Electronics Productivity/Scientific/Math Productivity/Scientific/Other Productivity/Scientific/Physics
Thus, IMHO, removing the Group tag as it is today from .spec is a good thing.
By the prize of losing *any* sane starting point for automatic conversion to a tag based classification. Consequently your package will not belong to any group, contributing to the great unknowns. Is that the plan?!? How is this any better than the less than optimal scheme, that *exists* today. Honestly, it's worse. Throwing them away today will generate more maintainer work later on. Guaranteed. Because users will complain, that there's no topic based classification, hence the distributions usability will suffer as a whole. IN order to solve that misery, a tag based classification will be invented. Distributing it effectively, *mandatory* classification will be enforced from the tooling. Yet another turn around during check in. We, the Group line promoter, want(ed) to avoid this. Pete -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-factory+owner@opensuse.org