Re: Tags

Petr Baudis wrote:

I doubt that's really useful either. Rather artificial mechanisms for
protection of the namespace would have to be deployed, and again, what
would it be good for anyway? If you are tagging linux-2.m.n, you are
probably whoever you should be - David, Alan, Marcelo, Linus, or whoever
else, while if you are tagging linux-2.m.n-cki, you are likely Con
Kolivas. I don't believe there is any (or much) potential for "natural"
conflicts and if you are malicious, you will just fake the namespace;
but frequently what's interesting about the tags is not the author at
all - I would consider it confusing to have to suddenly dive to another
namespace when Linus hands maintenance of linux-2.m to someone else.

The only significant value I can therefore see in the namespaces is
prevention of user mistakes, but I think the successful strategy here
would be just "upstream will notice", and make sure the upstream will be
noticed properly (perhaps even interactively) about any new tags it
gets.

Ok, I admit that it boils down to me being lazy and that "it'd be more
typing!"... ;-)

You're missing the whole point of the discussion.  Right now the only 
thing that makes a global object store impossible is the potential for a 
tag conflict, either intentional or accidental.

	-hpa