Sourceforge topic categories

When you categorize a Sourceforge.net project, you may, among others, pick from the possible data formats (cf. the image on the right). One of them is Docbook (114 or rather 54 projects, depending on where you click), but they also have categories with 2 or even 0 projects in them.

When you search for the string "TEI" in descriptions, you get a list of 16 projects, while in reality there may be more, because search for "TEI*" lists 38, some of them being misses, but some of them having e.g. "TEI-P5" in the description.

So here's a simple idea, very much in line with the current publicising efforts: get "TEI" listed as one of the topic categories at Sourceforge, and get all TEI-related projects to join. The trick here is not exactly in the number of projects (though 16 isn't bad, given that the whole of "SGML" has 18 in fact): it is in having "TEI" officially recognized as a data format category at its own software repository.

I have no idea right now whom to contact or whether it takes a single good argument or a hundred votes (hmm, how many would they gather for MCML, I wonder), but in case pressure is needed, surely we can offer it as a community.

Update: posted a request for "TEI" as a new category. The request might need monitoring and further argumentation.

Update: the request was accepted and a new category was created: =trove%3A852 Topic::Formats and Protocols::Data Formats::TEI]. :-)