Merging tags to most common spellings

[maxpou]

hiya,

I just noticed that same filters have been repeated twice or more.

We have:

• "Front End", "Front end" and "Frontend"
• "Ruby On Rail", "Ruby on Rails" and "Rails" (rails === RoR right?)
• "Gatsby" and "GatsbyJs"
• "Vue" and "VueJS"

Do you mind if I merge people's tags to the most used?

[HugoDF]

@maxpou go for it

There was an issue kicking around to deduplicate tags in the code but the agreed upon approach is to edit the data file.

Ideally, make 1 PR per tag that you're unifying.

[maxpou]

@HugoDF there you go. As said before, I arbitrary took the most popular keyword

• "Front End", "Front end" and "Frontend" ==> fix(data): merge frontend tag (#637) #639
• "Gatsby" and "GatsbyJs" ==> fix(data): merge gatsby tag (#637) #640
• "Vue" and "VueJS" ==> fix(data): merge vue tag (#637) #641

Someone can confirm this?

• "Ruby On Rail", "Ruby on Rails" and "Rails" (rails === RoR right?)

[HugoDF]

"Ruby On Rail", "Ruby on Rails" and "Rails" (rails === RoR right?)

This is correct, in this case I would use "Ruby on Rails"

[transiient]

We could list these common spellings at the top of data.js so people can easily reference them.

[nico-bachner]

Hi,

I've been cleaning up some tags and realised that since it's actually really easy that this issue should perhaps be labelled "good for first-time" or similar.

Would a maintainer be so kind as to do this if they agree?
Cheers

[nico-bachner]

I'm planning on merging the VSCode tags next.

Which spelling is preferable: Visual Studio Code, VS Code or VSCode ?

[carbontwelve]

I can see that this issue has a long history and @BlakeCampbells looks to have made progress in merging tags. Is this issue now completed, or is there work still to do?

[BlakeCampbells]

Good call @carbontwelve , I think this is okay to close.

To keep it from happening in the future we should add either some validation around tags or in src/util/stats.js we should make sure normalizeTags covers more cases.