# \[Call to Arms\] The Quest to Label every Julia Package
**URL:** https://discourse.julialang.org/t/call-to-arms-the-quest-to-label-every-julia-package/37817
**Category:** Package Announcements
**Created:** [April 18, 2020, 8:12pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/call-to-arms-the-quest-to-label-every-julia-package/37817 "2020-04-18T20:12:42Z")
**Posts on this page:** 9
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### Author:  [@djsegal](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/djsegal)
#### Post date: [April 18, 2020, 8:12pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/call-to-arms-the-quest-to-label-every-julia-package/37817/1 "2020-04-18T20:12:42Z")
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](https://github.com/svaksha/Julia.jl/blob/master/db.csv), I believe we could label a couple hundred [registered](https://github.com/JuliaRegistries/General) packages!
The way you can help with this is by going to [JuliaPackages.com](http://JuliaPackages.com) and when you get to a package without a label, make a suggestion (see images below for instructions):
* * *
// the link used above is:
> **[Genie.jl](https://www.juliapackages.com/p/genie)**
>
> 🧞The highly productive Julia web framework
(if you think there should be a new category or subcategory, feel free to make a github issue [here](https://github.com/djsegal/julia_packages/issues/new?title=New%20Category%20Suggestion&body=Category%20Name%3A%0A%3E%20%7B%7B%20category_name%20%7D%7D%0A%0APackages%20Include%3A%0A%2B%20%60%7B%7B%20Package%201%20%7D%7D%60%0A%2B%20%60%7B%7B%20Package%202%20%7D%7D%60%0A%2B%20%60%7B%7B%20Package%203%20%7D%7D%60))
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### Author:  [@oheil](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/oheil)
#### Post date: [April 18, 2020, 9:43pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/call-to-arms-the-quest-to-label-every-julia-package/37817/2 "2020-04-18T21:43:51Z")
Can we have a Category “No category yet” ?
With this it would be much faster to get them categorized.
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### Author:  [@Datseris](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/Datseris)
#### Post date: [April 18, 2020, 10:48pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/call-to-arms-the-quest-to-label-every-julia-package/37817/3 "2020-04-18T22:48:31Z")
There is [Package Docs](https://pkg.julialang.org/docs/) , [JuliaObserver](https://juliaobserver.com/) 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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### Author:  [@tbeason](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/tbeason)
#### Post date: [April 18, 2020, 10:57pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/call-to-arms-the-quest-to-label-every-julia-package/37817/4 "2020-04-18T22:57:51Z")
This is the new Julia observer
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### Author:  [@Henrique\_Becker](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/Henrique_Becker)
#### Post date: [April 18, 2020, 11:00pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/call-to-arms-the-quest-to-label-every-julia-package/37817/5 "2020-04-18T23:00:37Z")
I have done this earlier today (before this post appeared) to my own package, and I had two doubts:
1. [My package](https://github.com/henriquebecker91/TrackingHeaps.jl) implements a Heap, I wanted to categorize it as a Data Structure package, [but such category does not exists](https://juliapackages.com/packages/trackingheaps).
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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### Author:  [@Alec\_Loudenback](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/Alec_Loudenback)
#### Post date: [April 18, 2020, 11:03pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/call-to-arms-the-quest-to-label-every-julia-package/37817/6 "2020-04-18T23:03:42Z")
I went to do some categorization of the packages in the [JuliaActuary](https://github.com/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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### Author:  [@tkf](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/tkf)
#### Post date: [April 19, 2020, 1:26am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/call-to-arms-the-quest-to-label-every-julia-package/37817/7 "2020-04-19T01:26:32Z")
FYI there is a proposal to add metadata in Project.toml including keywords/tags:
[https://github.com/JuliaLang/Pkg.jl/issues/1070](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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### Author:  [@anon92994695](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/anon92994695)
#### Post date: [April 19, 2020, 1:40am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/call-to-arms-the-quest-to-label-every-julia-package/37817/8 "2020-04-19T01:40:49Z")
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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### Author:  [@xiaodai](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/xiaodai)
#### Post date: [April 19, 2020, 2:51am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/call-to-arms-the-quest-to-label-every-julia-package/37817/9 "2020-04-19T02:51:27Z")
Kinda against this idea as it defeats the purpose