[Call to Arms] The Quest to Label every Julia Package

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Hi All,

This is an open request to help out the community by categorizing Julia packages. Working on the structure of Svaksha’s curated list, I believe we could label a couple hundred registered packages!

The way you can help with this is by going to JuliaPackages.com and when you get to a package without a label, make a suggestion (see images below for instructions):

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(if you think there should be a new category or subcategory, feel free to make a github issue here)

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Can we have a Category “No category yet” ?
With this it would be much faster to get them categorized.

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There is Package Docs , JuliaObserver and now this, which I assume is something new?

Shouldn’t there be one centralized place for this kind of thing? Why are new ones popping up…?

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This is the new Julia observer

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I have done this earlier today (before this post appeared) to my own package, and I had two doubts:

  1. My package implements a Heap, I wanted to categorize it as a Data Structure package, but such category does not exists.
  2. Who will accept/define the package final category? (i.e., not just “suggest”) I have a say for being the author of the package, or it is an entirely community driven thing?
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I went to do some categorization of the packages in the JuliaActuary Organization and found that I really couldn’t find a great category to suggest.

I wonder if tags would be a better option - maybe even just pull in the tags that are attached to repos on Github?

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FYI there is a proposal to add metadata in Project.toml including keywords/tags:

https://github.com/JuliaLang/Pkg.jl/issues/1070

I think having this in Project.toml would be nice as this metadata would be shared across other platforms.

Though I see that this is much nicer UI for suggesting a tag (than manually opening a PR). Maybe JuliaPackages.com can implement a way to backport this metadata to the original package?

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Whew just labelled 4-5 packages. What if we see a package under a label and we think it might do better under another label? Is it possible to belong to multiple categories?

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Kinda against this idea as it defeats the purpose