[Python-Dev] Trove classifiers

[Guido van Rossum]

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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