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Allow multiple values for softwareType #89
Description
Looks like for now softwareType accepts only a single value.
As our application is both standalone/desktop and standalone/mobile, we would need to add both...
Please change softwareType to accept enumerated string or array of strings.
Reacted by Emil Madsen
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bfabio commentedon Mar 31, 2022
@Animtim agreed! Would you care to open a PR with the proposal?
Animtim commentedon Mar 31, 2022
Nice! Though sorry I'm a bit too busy these days to make a PR for it, please do it if you can.
tomootes commentedon Mar 5, 2026
@bfabio shall we close this since it doesn't seem relevant anymore?
bfabio commentedon Apr 15, 2026
I think it's still relevant. A cross platform app or a monorepo could easily fit multiple values.
lsmith77 commentedon May 29, 2026
Rather than patching
softwareTypeto accept arrays, this might be a good opportunity to address the broader classification problem —categories,softwareType, and the requestedtechnologiesfield (#100) are all asking for multi-dimensional description with overlapping vocabularies. I've been working on aclassificationproposal based on the OSS Taxonomy whereclassification.roleis the natural successor tosoftwareTypeand natively supports multiple values. Migration fromsoftwareTypeis mechanical and automatable. More detail in this proposal. Happy to write it up formally if useful.