Ask Ubuntu has a groovy tag that is dedicated to “a dynamic language for the Java Virtual Machine”.
However, Groovy (Gorilla) is the name of Ubuntu 20.10 and users started to (mis)use the tag for Ubuntu 20.10 – there are 3 such questions currently but I’d expect more to come.
Should the original tag be renamed (to jvm-groovy, for example)? Should the groovy description be improved, so users are aware of its intended meaning?
Great catch! Another alternative - we could remove the tag altogether. Do we actually need a tag for that language? There are only 20 questions in the tag (including the wrongly tagged ones) and most of them are about software-installation. If they were about features of the language itself, or about platform-independent issues with using in it, they would be off-topic anyway.
Version tags are available (although some folks feel they should not be used at all) in the form 16.04 18.04 20.04 20.10 etc. Usually we have synonymised them so that, for example, xenial maps to 16.04 (attempts to use the former add the latter). We could do the same with groovy if we remove it from the java-related questions.
Great catch! Renaming the tag to jvm-groovy as you suggested is a good idea. Editing the usage guidance should also be done if the tag is renamed, but just fixing the usage guidance alone is very unlikely to prevent the tag from being misused.
Version tags are available (although some folks feel they should not be used at all) in the form 16.04 18.04 20.04 20.10 etc. Usually we have synonymised them so that, for example, xenial maps to 16.04 (attempts to use the former add the latter). We could do the same with groovy if we rename the current groovy.
