[development] Early Drupal 6 review from Chris Messina

[Daniel F. Kudwien]

> On Wed, 14 Nov 2007 17:25:49 +0100, Aymerick Jéhanne 
> <aymerick at jehanne.org> wrote:
> > Totally agree, users except terms to be categories.
> > 
> > The real "new concept" in drupal compared to others systems is the 
> > Vocabulary. And after all, a vocabulary is a kind of 'classification 
> > root', so why not:
> > 
> > taxonomy.module -> classification.module
> > vocabulary -> classification 
> > term -> category
> > 
> > My 2 cents :)
> > -- Aymerick
> 
> That's again coming back to a very blog-centric view of 
> taxonomy.  Half the things I use taxonomy module for are not 
> really "categories".  If you enable free tagging, you're then 
> talking about "tags", not really "categories".  Category 
> carries a lot of mental weight that is very limiting.
> 
> --Larry Garfield

IMHO, we are not able to find an adequate wording that suits all possible use cases of taxonomy.

I'd suggest to keep the current wording and improve the descriptions and documentation.

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