Why do we have a specification tag?

Question

I just found out that we have a specification tag. Can we remove it because it doesn't say anything about the problem? Or just give me a reason for that we even have it!

specification

Now when there are zero questions with the tag. Can we remove it?

Answer 1

Currently this tag is used in different ways:

• Technical standards, such as those of freedesktop.org.
• Coding standards (which are, in a sense, specifications of how to write code).
• Obtaining technical specifications of hardware.
• Questions about what Ubuntu can do on hardware, given particular specifications.
• Requests for hardware specifications (i.e., hardware recommendations, which in this context are often shopping recommendations).
• The general, colloquial sense of specifying something (i.e., stating it, indicating it).

So we have nine questions, and six separate meanings of the tag, some of which relate a little bit to each other, and some of which do not relate at all.

So yes, we should get rid of this tag.

But as there are only nine questions, we can just retag them (perhaps once there's a stronger community consensus that this tag should not exist).