[Tagging] Time to split the list?

[Martin Koppenhoefer]

Am Do., 17. Feb. 2022 um 13:34 Uhr schrieb Dian Ågesson <me at diacritic.xyz>:

> Hello,
>
> In the last few months I have found it very difficult to keep track of the
> conversations on this list. I have seen suggestions or questions crowded
> out by ongoing, broad discussions. I’ve seen a lot of words about theories
> and philosophies that don’t really relate to a specific tag.
>
> The conversation about consensus is a good example; it’s a valid
> discussion but the audience that would be interested in it is not
> necessarily the same as those who are looking for tagging advice.
>
> Until a better communication platform is introduced, I would like to
> suggest splitting this mailing list into different audiences to facilitate
> different types of discussion:
>


in principle a good idea to split [tagging] into more mailing lists.


> - tagging_help: a place to ask and answer “how do I tag…” questions.
>

this kind of question would also be suitable for the help system. There are
2 typical kind of situations:
a) we do have a documented tag and if it makes sense to all participants,
the story ends here, or
b) we do not have a documented tag, and people start proposing solutions,
i.e. it turns into a tag discussion and development thread and should go to
tagging_this_list
IMHO a separate mailing list is not needed: nowadays, lots of these are
solved on other channels, like osm forum, irc, telegram, maybe slack, etc.
anyways and there is too much overlap with "tagging" in general.



> - tagging_proposals: pure news feed for proposal announcements. RFC open,
> vote notifications etc.
>

+1, I would call it "tagging-announce", similar to the (very low frequency)
announce channel https://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/announce/ or
"hot-announce".



> - tagging_strategy: a place to discuss the BIG, thorny issues about
> tagging. Essays and debates welcome.
>

+1


> - tagging: this list.
>
+1


basically 2 new lists, "tagging-announce" for formal announcements (RFC,
voting) and "tagging-strategy" for epic threads not relating to specific
tagging but to the process and philosophy, the grand scheme

Cheers,
Martin
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