30. Trove-Like Categories
Proposal:
Add Freshmeat.net or SourceForge-like trove categories with topics
programming languages, etc. As opposed to keywords/labels/tags they are a
nested tree, and will also be limited to a given list. This will help in
being able to better browse CPAN instead of th
Excerpts from David Golden's message of Fri Oct 09 07:55:12 -0400 2009:
> 30. Trove-Like Categories
>
> Proposal:
>
> Add Freshmeat.net or SourceForge-like trove categories with topics
> programming languages, etc. As opposed to keywords/labels/tags they are a
> nested tree, and will also be lim
On Oct 9, 2009, at 6:55 AM, David Golden wrote:
30. Trove-Like Categories
Proposal:
Add Freshmeat.net or SourceForge-like trove categories with topics
programming languages, etc. As opposed to keywords/labels/tags they
are a
nested tree, and will also be limited to a given list. This will
David Golden wrote:
30. Trove-Like Categories
Opposed. Keywords-set-by-authors don't work very well. We already have
the underused user-tagging of modules.
Steffen
* David Golden [2009-10-09T07:55:12]
> 30. Trove-Like Categories
Seems like a organizational step backwards.
Opposed.
--
rjbs
On Fri, Oct 09, 2009 at 08:21:30AM -0400, Hans Dieter Pearcey wrote:
> Excerpts from David Golden's message of Fri Oct 09 07:55:12 -0400 2009:
> > 30. Trove-Like Categories
> >
> > Proposal:
> >
> > Add Freshmeat.net or SourceForge-like trove categories with topics
> > programming languages, etc.
On Fri, Oct 9, 2009 at 7:55 AM, David Golden wrote:
> 30. Trove-Like Categories
>
> Proposal:
>
> Add Freshmeat.net or SourceForge-like trove categories with topics
> programming languages, etc. As opposed to keywords/labels/tags they are a
> nested tree, and will also be limited to a given list.
On Oct 9, 2009, at 2:06 PM, David Golden wrote:
* Freshmeat no longer has Trove categories, they were replaced by
tags.
--Chorny 15:40, 27 September 2009 (BST)
-1 for structured categories
+1 for freeform author keywords
+1 Just what I was going to say.
David
On Fri, Oct 9, 2009 at 5:18 PM, David E. Wheeler wrote:
> On Oct 9, 2009, at 2:06 PM, David Golden wrote:
>
> * Freshmeat no longer has Trove categories, they were replaced by tags.
>>> --Chorny 15:40, 27 September 2009 (BST)
>>>
>>
>> -1 for structured categories
>>
>> +1 for freeform author ke
Hi all!
On Friday 09 Oct 2009 16:34:27 Graham Barr wrote:
> On Oct 9, 2009, at 6:55 AM, David Golden wrote:
> > 30. Trove-Like Categories
> >
> > Proposal:
> >
> > Add Freshmeat.net or SourceForge-like trove categories with topics
> > programming languages, etc. As opposed to keywords/labels/tags
On Friday 09 Oct 2009 23:06:25 David Golden wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 9, 2009 at 7:55 AM, David Golden wrote:
> > 30. Trove-Like Categories
> >
> > Proposal:
> >
> > Add Freshmeat.net or SourceForge-like trove categories with topics
> > programming languages, etc. As opposed to keywords/labels/tags th
On Sat, Oct 10, 2009 at 6:57 AM, Shlomi Fish wrote:
> One of the reason tags are popular may be due to an easier
> implementation and maintenance.
+1
-- David
On Friday 09 Oct 2009 16:53:47 Steffen Mueller wrote:
> David Golden wrote:
> > 30. Trove-Like Categories
>
> Opposed. Keywords-set-by-authors don't work very well. We already have
> the underused user-tagging of modules.
>
There are already keywords-set-by-authors. They are under-used but with
Excerpts from Shlomi Fish's message of Sat Oct 10 07:05:29 -0400 2009:
> if we will allow people to browse the CPAN by
> category (like http://dmoz.org/ ), it will be a huge usability improvement.
Does anyone actually use dmoz anymore? The last time I stumbled across it was
2003 and it wasn't v
On Friday 09 Oct 2009 13:55:12 David Golden wrote:
> 30. Trove-Like Categories
>
> Proposal:
>
> Add Freshmeat.net or SourceForge-like trove categories with topics
> programming languages, etc. As opposed to keywords/labels/tags they are a
> nested tree, and will also be limited to a given list.
* Shlomi Fish [2009-10-10T06:57:11]
> With all due respect to tags, categories still have their advantage, and
> should be considered despite their lack of popularity among the latest fads
> on the web. One of the reason tags are popular may be due to an easier
They've been considered. That's w
On Sat, Oct 10, 2009 at 7:49 AM, Ricardo Signes
wrote:
> * Shlomi Fish [2009-10-10T06:57:11]
>> With all due respect to tags, categories still have their advantage, and
>> should be considered despite their lack of popularity among the latest fads
>> on the web. One of the reason tags are popular
On Fri, Oct 09, 2009 at 05:06:25PM -0400, David Golden wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 9, 2009 at 7:55 AM, David Golden wrote:
> > 30. Trove-Like Categories
> >
> > Proposal:
> >
> > Add Freshmeat.net or SourceForge-like trove categories with topics
> > programming languages, etc. As opposed to keywords/lab
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