On Thu 04 Nov 2021 12:06:47 PM EDT, Andreas Tille <[email protected]> wrote: >> All mathematics >> packages? How do the categories work, and what conditions warrant a new >> category? > > You need to ask the mathematicians what might be sensible tasks. > The tasks mathematics and mathematics-dev are definitely non-sense > but it was the easiest way for me to kickstart something.
One possible source of task categories is to use the American Mathematical Society's Mathematics Subject Classification [1]. This is already used to classify academic papers, and the problem of classifying mathematics software is certainly similar. Doug [1] https://mathscinet.ams.org/mathscinet/msc/msc2020.html
