{packages} and {package-writing} tags

Question

According to the packages tag wiki:

This tag marks questions which are about packages in general, for instance about installing, using or writing packages.

We also have 6 questions tagged with package-writing, none of which is tagged packages.

Is the package-writing tag redundant and should be merged into packages? Or should we remove the ”writing”-part from packages? Or should package-writing be a tag that can be applied in addition to packages?

Further, current usage seems to be tag requests for a package that does something specific with packages. Should there be a separate tag for these kinds of question? (We had a package-hint tag, but I was only used by one question. )

Answer 1

In my opinion package-writing should be preserved because creation and writing is very different to usage. Package writers should be able to find specific questions instead of looking them up among a huge amount of choosing and using questions.

As the general tag packages is mostly used for requests regarding recommendations of packages, I would not introduce another tag for that. Renaming or a synonym would be possible. But I don't see a need for that action. For specific questions there might be tags created, such as package-options or package-installing if meaningful. It's good to differentiate. I just don't see the need to retag 50 packages questions to package-hint.

I would edit the packages wiki to clarify that for questions about writing the other tag should be chosen.