[Python-Dev] Trove classifiers

Sat Mar 22 01:23:25 CET 2008

On Thu, Mar 20, 2008 at 9:43 AM, Fred Drake <fdrake at acm.org> wrote:
> On Mar 20, 2008, at 11:55 AM, Oleg Broytmann wrote:
> > Yes, exactly. Eric Raymond claims to be the inventor, but there are
> > different voices against him:
> > http://damagestudios.net/blog/2005/08/15/sourceforge-founders
>>> That contests that Raymond was an "architectural granddaddy of
> SourceForge", not that he invented Trove. My understanding is that he
> did start the efforts to define the Trove classifiers as part of a
> larger effort that never panned out, but that defining the classifiers
> was not a solo effort.

That's my recollection too.
And yes, Eric would like to have invented open source. :-)
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