# What should the categories be? **URL:** \ **Category:** šŸ”„ Meta\ **Created:** [March 27, 2019, 8:25pm UTC](https://es.discourse.group/t/what-should-the-categories-be/29 "2019-03-27T20:25:24Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![michael](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/free1/user_avatar/es.discourse.group/michael/32/11_2.png) [@michael](https://es.discourse.group/u/michael)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2019, 8:25pm UTC](https://es.discourse.group/t/what-should-the-categories-be/29/1 "2019-03-27T20:25:24Z")
As I stated in committee today, I think the ā€œoff-topic discussionā€ category should be removed, as it invites noise. But what categories might we add to replace it? @zenparsing suggested an announcements category. I think a category where we can post questions about participation or unsolicited advice for participation would be helpful. What else? ---
**Author:** ![bnb](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/free1/user_avatar/es.discourse.group/bnb/32/21_2.png) [@bnb](https://es.discourse.group/u/bnb)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2019, 2:21pm UTC](https://es.discourse.group/t/what-should-the-categories-be/29/2 "2019-03-28T14:21:47Z")
Perhaps a ā€œMeetingsā€ category would be useful? It would be nice to have a source for outcomes from meetings to be shared widely with the community, though Iā€™m not necessarily sure what artifacts come out of meetings that could be included in threads in there. ---
**Author:** ![aki](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/free1/user_avatar/es.discourse.group/aki/32/4_2.png) [@aki](https://es.discourse.group/u/aki)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2019, 1:57am UTC](https://es.discourse.group/t/what-should-the-categories-be/29/3 "2019-03-30T01:57:16Z")
Iā€™m currently creating sub-categories in the Proposals category for the various stages. Is that enough, or should we think about creating sub-categories for the more chatty individual proposals as well? ---
**Author:** ![aki](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/free1/user_avatar/es.discourse.group/aki/32/4_2.png) [@aki](https://es.discourse.group/u/aki)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2019, 1:58am UTC](https://es.discourse.group/t/what-should-the-categories-be/29/4 "2019-03-30T01:58:14Z")
how do you feel about the new description of the ā€œIdeasā€ category? does it need more? do we need another category altogether? ---
**Author:** ![michael](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/free1/user_avatar/es.discourse.group/michael/32/11_2.png) [@michael](https://es.discourse.group/u/michael)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2019, 2:16am UTC](https://es.discourse.group/t/what-should-the-categories-be/29/5 "2019-03-30T02:16:20Z")
I think categories for stages could become problematic as proposals advance stages. How would we manage moving the conversations? How would this work with archiving? ---
**Author:** ![aki](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/free1/user_avatar/es.discourse.group/aki/32/4_2.png) [@aki](https://es.discourse.group/u/aki)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2019, 4:40pm UTC](https://es.discourse.group/t/what-should-the-categories-be/29/6 "2019-04-01T16:40:31Z")
the moving part is easy enough: any admin (or maybe admin/moderator?) can move them. i think the ā€œProposalsā€ category will be way too congested without _some_ manner of sub-category. more than happy to hear other ideas or suggestions. ---
**Author:** ![michael](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/free1/user_avatar/es.discourse.group/michael/32/11_2.png) [@michael](https://es.discourse.group/u/michael)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2019, 4:48pm UTC](https://es.discourse.group/t/what-should-the-categories-be/29/7 "2019-04-01T16:48:28Z")
I donā€™t think the act of moving is the hard part, itā€™s identifying all of the threads related to a proposal and moving them after each advancement. And whose responsibility is it to do that? The chair group? ---
**Author:** ![ljharb](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/free1/user_avatar/es.discourse.group/ljharb/32/8_2.png) [@ljharb](https://es.discourse.group/u/ljharb)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2019, 5:29pm UTC](https://es.discourse.group/t/what-should-the-categories-be/29/8 "2019-04-01T17:29:19Z")
If this is a better place to have discussions than the proposal repo, perhaps a 1:1 correspondence of proposal repo to proposal category? ie one per proposal rather than grouping by stage ---
**Author:** ![aki](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/free1/user_avatar/es.discourse.group/aki/32/4_2.png) [@aki](https://es.discourse.group/u/aki)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2019, 5:47pm UTC](https://es.discourse.group/t/what-should-the-categories-be/29/9 "2019-04-01T17:47:42Z")
Totally an option. I donā€™t think this is _necessarily_ a better place to have discussions than the proposal repo. Iā€™m not here to make hard rules about where we can discuss what. at least not yet I think time will tell as we get accustomed to the moderation/discussion systems here vs GitHub what is working best for us. Will we ultimately make the issues queue **super** limited that it only applies to specific details in the specific lines of code/spec text/etc etc and all other discussion is moved here? idk idk I **do** think this could be better for the more broad and sweeping discussions around proposals. (Like, say, the ones that currently occasionally happen on es-discuss YES I READ SOME OF IT) ---
**Author:** ![aki](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/free1/user_avatar/es.discourse.group/aki/32/4_2.png) [@aki](https://es.discourse.group/u/aki)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2019, 2:15am UTC](https://es.discourse.group/t/what-should-the-categories-be/29/10 "2019-04-30T02:15:02Z")
hi friends, i haven't abandoned this cause, just was needed more on other tasks for a while. i'm definitely of the opinion that categorization needs to be a little better before i pop over to esdiscuss and ask everyone to try this out. if part of the point was to make this a more manageable conversation space for those who aren't able to make time to skim everything, it definitely needs to be more parseable. I love the categories that WICG is using, what's the equivalent breakdown we could be doing? for reference: - APIs - HTML - JS - Uncategorized - Security - Media and Real Time Communications - protocols - CSS - meta - web components - Architecture - Web mapping - Digital Publishing - web wishes - Announcement - URL - asm.js would we want a single category for proposals and lots of tags to use? tags identifying each proposal? tags categorizing proposals with like `syntax` or the like? what additional categories? "security"? keeping "ideas" for sure, the proposals category would be specifically for _existing_ proposals. Help me out here y'all, i'm at a loss but ready to move forward. (on a similar note, i'd like to have a ton of tags or a respectable number of subcategories available in "ideas" because i suspect a lot of the traffic would be in that category) ---
**Author:** ![rkirsling](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/free1/user_avatar/es.discourse.group/rkirsling/32/24_2.png) [@rkirsling](https://es.discourse.group/u/rkirsling)\ **Post date:** [May 1, 2019, 10:53pm UTC](https://es.discourse.group/t/what-should-the-categories-be/29/11 "2019-05-01T22:53:02Z")
Various thoughts: Seems like `Intl` deserves a category. For proposals, I think we already tend to view them as implicitly grouped so it's probably a matter of making those groupings explicit. `OOP` (or `Classes`) and `RegExp` seem like good, clear ones. `Built-ins` might be a bit too coarse-grained, but then I'm also not certain how granular we want to get. I was going to say `Annex B` too but I'm not sure whether this is the place we expect to have such conversations. I think a category for assistance with spec-reading might be cool? Not sure what we'd call it; `How Do I` isn't quite right and `Does This Mean What I Think It Means` is too long. šŸ˜‚ ---
**Author:** ![aki](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/free1/user_avatar/es.discourse.group/aki/32/4_2.png) [@aki](https://es.discourse.group/u/aki)\ **Post date:** [May 2, 2019, 4:22pm UTC](https://es.discourse.group/t/what-should-the-categories-be/29/12 "2019-05-02T16:22:38Z")
What about a `How Do I` category with a `Spec Reading` subcategory? ---
**Author:** ![yulia](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/free1/user_avatar/es.discourse.group/yulia/32/291_2.png) [@yulia](https://es.discourse.group/u/yulia)\ **Post date:** [May 3, 2019, 7:16am UTC](https://es.discourse.group/t/what-should-the-categories-be/29/13 "2019-05-03T07:16:12Z")
Should we add a "Newcomers" category? where people who are totally new and want to feel safe asking questions can go? ---
**Author:** ![rkirsling](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/free1/user_avatar/es.discourse.group/rkirsling/32/24_2.png) [@rkirsling](https://es.discourse.group/u/rkirsling)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2019, 11:43pm UTC](https://es.discourse.group/t/what-should-the-categories-be/29/14 "2019-05-19T23:43:34Z")
When I replied earlier, I think I assumed that categories were just "tags" and not like "forums" (in other words, I was visualizing Stack Overflow). As such, it's possible that everything I mentioned ought to be tags instead of categories. ---
**Author:** ![aki](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/free1/user_avatar/es.discourse.group/aki/32/4_2.png) [@aki](https://es.discourse.group/u/aki)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2019, 2:35am UTC](https://es.discourse.group/t/what-should-the-categories-be/29/15 "2019-05-22T02:35:54Z")
I can create tags too, I just hadn't yet bc I did have a good list. Are you suggesting `Intl`, `Classes`, `RegExp`, and `Built-ins` as tags then? ---
**Author:** ![rkirsling](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/free1/user_avatar/es.discourse.group/rkirsling/32/24_2.png) [@rkirsling](https://es.discourse.group/u/rkirsling)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2019, 3:01am UTC](https://es.discourse.group/t/what-should-the-categories-be/29/16 "2019-05-22T03:01:08Z")
Yeah. Though I could see both ways for `Intl` in particular, I'm thinking these would be more useful to be a tag on topics under `Ideas` or `Proposals`. ---
**Author:** ![yulia](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/free1/user_avatar/es.discourse.group/yulia/32/291_2.png) [@yulia](https://es.discourse.group/u/yulia)\ **Post date:** [June 6, 2019, 9:20pm UTC](https://es.discourse.group/t/what-should-the-categories-be/29/17 "2019-06-06T21:20:10Z")
Can we create an "experiments" category? ---
**Author:** ![aki](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/free1/user_avatar/es.discourse.group/aki/32/4_2.png) [@aki](https://es.discourse.group/u/aki)\ **Post date:** [June 6, 2019, 10:46pm UTC](https://es.discourse.group/t/what-should-the-categories-be/29/18 "2019-06-06T22:46:29Z")
oh heck yes ---
**Author:** ![aki](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/free1/user_avatar/es.discourse.group/aki/32/4_2.png) [@aki](https://es.discourse.group/u/aki)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2019, 12:22am UTC](https://es.discourse.group/t/what-should-the-categories-be/29/19 "2019-06-07T00:22:13Z")
@yulia I'll leave it to you to write a category intro. First 200 characters or so will show on main categories page. [Experiments 101](https://es.discourse.group/t/experiments-101/72) ---
**Author:** ![mnini](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/free1/user_avatar/es.discourse.group/mnini/32/253_2.png) [@mnini](https://es.discourse.group/u/mnini)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2020, 5:54pm UTC](https://es.discourse.group/t/what-should-the-categories-be/29/20 "2020-02-28T17:54:28Z")
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