On Thu, 19 Aug 2004, Hugh S. Myers wrote:
2. Push hard on the notion of adding a keywords item to the 'standard' for pod documentation.
What should those keywords be? Who decides? I'm personally much more interested in seeing a dmoz-ish hierarchy so related modules can be easily found and compared.
I agree[1]. A static list of catagories like DMOZ or SourceForge uses would provide for improved, more consistent searches and an improved by-catagory browsing catalog. Catagories could be added to META.yml for easy indexing by <search.cpan.org>. Fixed catagories make it more likely that similar modules will be found together both when browsing by-catagory and when searching. And you eliminate the abuses of keywords.
1. <http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.module-authors/2601/>
