How should we document tags for questions mentioning specific service packs or hotfix rollups?

Question

In How should we document version tags like Tridion-2011 we decided to use just product version numbers such as 2011 or 5.3 for tags related to specific versions of a Tridion product.

At the time we didn't explicitly discuss whether we wanted to have tags for specific service packs or hot fix rollups although I think it was implicit in Nuno's answer we would just tag them with the major version number of the product.

Recently we've had three questions tagged with 5.2sp1. My inclination is they should be retagged as 5.2 but I wanted to see what everyone else thinks first.

What should the tag convention be for questions mentioning specific service packs or hotfix rollups?

Answer 1

I agree to retagging 5.2sp1 with 5.2 since else we are going to create a lot of version specific tags which do not necessarily add more clarity. The tag has the goal to group questions for a specific version, in the question text it should always be mentioned what version the question is specifically relating too (in which case I specifically mean service packs).

However we can't stop new users from creating such tags, so perhaps we should start ourselves with adding the known versions in there and suggest a clear tag wiki for them, so hopefully new users will choose those over others.

next we should start working on our FAQ and make this very clear in there. Something like: tagging is for grouping your question. And also explain the usage of version specific tags in there.