On 2015-11-16 13:27:33, Ian Jackson wrote:
> [resending because my MUA messed up]
>
> Ben Hutchings writes ("Re: git, debian/<version> tags, dgit - namespace proposal"):
> > Deliberately creating identifiers that differ only by case seems
> > gratuitously confusing.
>
> I acknowledge that this is a downside of my proposal. However, it is
> IMO important that the tag names I choose are relatively prominent.
>
> A major part of the audience is people who don't know much about
> Debian packaging, or even necessarily much about git workflows, let
> alone about how Debian uses git.
>
> If such a user sees two similarly named tags, they will at least know
> that something is confusing. They can look at the contents of each,
> or type ignorant questions into a search engine, and hopefully find
> the answer. So the very obvious nature of the confusion is an
> advantage.
I would say that's a long shot; depends on your users, of course, but in
general the plan "let's make X confusing so that people will pay more
attention to it and learn its intricacies" is more likely to backfire,
IMHO.
regards,
iustin
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