At 02:54 PM 3/2/2006 -0600, Ian Bicking wrote: >Right now the trove categories don't make much sense for Python >projects; lots of cruft, little granularity around things we actually >care about. > >And "Topic :: Internet :: WWW/HTTP" is a super-lame category anyway ;) >It should be "Topic :: Web". But eh... really, the whole hierarchy and >taxonomy of packages is stupid.
+1. Flat is better than nested, and the current categories are insanely nested. 5 levels deep to get to the idea of "Message Boards"? Wow. That having been said, I'm sure the trove stuff was adopted for a very good reason, i.e., to avoid getting bogged down in taxonomy wars before there was even a working product. :) Now, however, that there are hundreds of projects already on a working system, it might be a good idea to see what categories are actually getting used, and consider collapsing them to a flatter hierarchy, or maybe even just tags. _______________________________________________ Catalog-sig mailing list [email protected] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/catalog-sig
