This is one of the incremental changes implementing the English language category restructuring discussed in general at:
The specific changes being proposed can be seen here. They consist of:
- Change the category's name from "Software" to "Development Tools"
- Change category "slug" (cosmetic text in category page URL) to
development-tools - Define the category description in the "About the Development Tools category" topic:
Discussion about software tools used for development and deployment of Arduino projects.
In the world of embedded systems development, the term "software" might be used to refer to several distinct things. Although an experienced forum user might be able to infer from the subcategories that the software referred to by the "Software" category name is the applications used for development and deployment of Arduino projects rather than the software/firmware that make up the projects themselves, such an inference should not be required and the ambiguity may make it difficult for a less experienced user to understand the scope of the category and its subcategories.
The name "Development Tools" is more explicit while also remaining reasonably concise. A category description is added in the "About the Development Tools category" post (which has a special technical treatment by the forum software) in order to even more clearly define the scope of the category.
Impact on Links
The name change will not break any links.
Links to Category and Subcategory Pages
Although the forum software adds a cosmetic text "slug" to the category page URL, the only technically significant part of the URL is the ID (e.g., 164). Even though the "slug" text will be changed as part of the renaming, the previous links will still lead to the category page as always.
Links to Topics and Posts
Topic and post URLs are not category dependent so there is no impact on links to any topics or posts under the renamed category.