Timeline for Don't mix version specific tags with stuff that isn't version specific!
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| Apr 13, 2017 at 12:25 | history | edited | CommunityBot |
replaced http://askubuntu.com/ with https://askubuntu.com/
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| May 25, 2014 at 22:17 | vote | accept | Braiam | ||
| Apr 10, 2014 at 1:47 | comment | added | Braiam | @Oli If you don't know just don't do. With the way you say we should tag, OP will always be certain that his question will be only relevant to the version of Ubuntu he's asking about/tagging with, if he doesn't know, why in the world he should use the tag at all? I don't see one rational reason. | |
| Apr 10, 2014 at 0:38 | comment | added | Oli Mod | @Gilles That sword cuts both ways. Unless you know what future releases are going to be, it's impossible to know if a problem is release-specific unless you already know it isn't. What you are arguing would mean version tags just can't exist. That does questions that are actually painfully specific a massive disservice. | |
| Apr 10, 2014 at 0:35 | comment | added | Braiam | I wish I could upvote your last comment thousand of times. I've seen question relevant to several future versions of X, and netherless being tagged like that. BTW, I hope becoming the tag police for AU, if I finally iron out all the inconsistencies and aberrations can be found. | |
| Apr 10, 2014 at 0:29 | comment | added | Gilles 'SO- stop being evil' | @Oli No, that way lies madness: when a new version comes out, you'll have to retag almost all the questions to remove the version tag. Don't use version tags if the question might possibly be version-specific, only if it is definitely version-specific. | |
| Apr 10, 2014 at 0:28 | comment | added | Oli Mod | This sort of walks you into a "How do you know what's version specific until you've witnessed every release?" debate. If something is shown to not be version specific, by all means drop bombs on that question's version tag(s)... If you don't know, why remove the tag? If it's the only tag, add some more. | |
| Apr 10, 2014 at 0:24 | comment | added | Oli Mod | @Gilles The problem (bash-completion not having an apt definition) doesn't exist in those releases because they don't exist yet... and bash-completion could have been improved in them when they do come to life. It's rather a semantic argument but until we know the state of future releases, it's version specific. | |
| Apr 10, 2014 at 0:21 | comment | added | Gilles 'SO- stop being evil' |
@Oli The apt command is highly likely to exist in future releases. The fact that this is the first release to have a feature doesn't mean that the question won't apply to future releases.
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| Apr 10, 2014 at 0:20 | comment | added | Gilles 'SO- stop being evil' | @Braiam I'm already the tag police for Unix & Linux. I don't have time to be the tag police for Ask Ubuntu as well. | |
| Apr 10, 2014 at 0:20 | comment | added | Oli Mod |
It really is specific to 14.04. The apt command doesn't exist in any other release and it's doubly relevant because the problem being asked about is due to 14.04's version of the bash-completion package. If that's not version specific, nothing is.
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| Apr 10, 2014 at 0:18 | comment | added | Braiam | "Most questions should not have a version tag." yet 10% of our questions are using 12.04 tag. | |
| Apr 10, 2014 at 0:17 | history | answered | Gilles 'SO- stop being evil' | CC BY-SA 3.0 |