[Rubygems-developers] Suggestion: RAA-like meta-data

[Jamis Buck]

Gavin Sinclair wrote:
> What about "database" vs "db"?  I think some standardisation is
> beneficial, even if it's ad hoc.  I certainly don't advocate a
> bureaucracy; just a bit of consistency injected by the gem server
> organiser.

That's precisely what I was referring to.  An algorithm to recongnize 
word stems can only do so much--at some point, people are going to use 
synonyms and abbreviations to describe the same thing.  For instance, if 
I say 'regexp' to describe my new regexp engine, and someone else says 
"regular expression", then someone who does a search for "regular 
expressions" will miss the one with the 'regexp' keyword.

I agree with Gavin, though -- I don't want a bereaucracy.  Even a simple 
list of recommendations that gem developers could follow ("no 
abbreviations", for example) would be fine.

-- 
Jamis Buck
jgb3 at email.byu.edu
http://www.jamisbuck.org/jamis

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r.compact.first };puts "\n>#{a.join(%q/ /)}<\n\n"'