troml_dev_status

Project inspired by troml to suggest a Development Status based solely on objective criteria.

A tool to objectively infer PyPI "Development Status" classifiers from code and release artifacts, based on the draft PEP ∞.

As far as I know, no python authority has given objective criteria for development status and the meaning is private to each user. Development status gets brief mention in PEP301.

Meanings

• Development Status :: 1 - Planning - Minimum score. All projects get at least Planning.
• Development Status :: 2 - Pre-Alpha - Few points awarded by grading rubric.
• Development Status :: 3 - Alpha - Many points awarded
• Development Status :: 4 - Beta - Even more points awarded
• Development Status :: 5 - Production/Stable - Perfect score
• Development Status :: 6 - Mature - Production and signs of upgrade help, e.g. Deprecation
• Development Status :: 7 - Inactive - Impossible to award. If you publish now, you are active.

In scope - easily graded metrics.

Out of scope - vibes, intentions, promises, support contracts, budget, staffing.

Also out of scope - linting, type annotations, code coverage in the sense of running third party tools at eval time.

Surprisingly out of scope - interface and API stability. Impossible to evaluate in Python (several noble attempts!), depends on developer wishes, hopes, aspirations, vibes which require psychology tests, not build tools.

Installation

Should be safe to pipx install so as to not mix your dependencies with the tool's

pipx install troml-dev-status

Usage

Run the tool against a local Git repository that has a pyproject.toml file.

# just display info
troml-dev-status analyze /path/to/your/project 

# fails if tool disagrees with your current development status
troml-dev-status verify /path/to/your/project 

# updates pyproject.toml with current status
troml-dev-status update /path/to/your/project 

The tool will analyze the project's PyPI releases, Git history, and source code to produce an evidence-based " Development Status" classifier.

README Rating and Completion Checking

These two features require LLMs. If no API key is found (see .env.example) these will be skipped.

Output

The tool outputs a human-readable summary table and a machine-readable JSON report.

Example Human-Readable Output

                              Development Status Analysis for troml-dev-status                              
┏━━━━━━━━━━━━━━┳━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━┳━━━━━━━━┳━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━┓
┃ ID           ┃ Description                 ┃ Status ┃ Evidence                                           ┃
┡━━━━━━━━━━━━━━╇━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━╇━━━━━━━━╇━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━┩
│ C1           │ SECURITY.md Present         │   OK   │ Checked for security files                         │
├──────────────┼─────────────────────────────┼────────┼────────────────────────────────────────────────────┤
│ C2           │ Trusted Publisher           │   OK   │ All files in most recent package are attested.     │
├──────────────┼─────────────────────────────┼────────┼────────────────────────────────────────────────────┤
│ C3           │ Dependencies Pinned         │   X    │ Found 3 not strictly pinned somehow: textstat,     │
│              │                             │        │ llvm-diagnostics, semantic-version.                │
├──────────────┼─────────────────────────────┼────────┼────────────────────────────────────────────────────┤
│ C4           │ Reproducible Dev Env        │   OK   │ Found uv lockfile ('uv.lock').                     │
...

Final Inferred Classifier: Development Status :: 4 - Beta
Reason: EPS=13/18; version 0.2.0 < 1.0.0; recent release; S3 holds.

Example JSON Output

The tool also prints a detailed JSON object containing the results of every check.

{
  "inferred_classifier": "Development Status :: 4 - Beta",
  "evaluated_at": "2025-09-14T20:00:00.123456Z",
  "checks": {
    "R1": {
      "passed": true,
      "evidence": "Found 15 releases on PyPI for 'my-package'"
    },
    "...": {}
  },
  "metrics": {
    "eps_score": 16,
    "eps_total": 19
  }
}

Project Health

Metric	Status
Coverage
Docs
PyPI
Downloads
License
Last Commit

Library info pages

• troml_dev_status

Snyk Security Pages

• troml_dev_status

Prior Art

Autofill/Suggest

• troml
• check-python-versions

Validate

• classifier-checker
• pyroma - Metadata completeness + 3 maintainers

Raw Data

• trove-classifiers
• trove-classifiers-cli

UI/Initialization

• trove-setup

License Tracking

• pip-licenses

Similar hosted services

• OpenSSF Best Practices - some machine validated criteria and many self asserted.
• Libraries.io SourceRank - 1/2 things you can control, 1/2 "popularity contest" metrics

Contributing

See the contributing file for how to contribute

See the development_setup file for how to set up and to run a local build.

Project Links

• GitHub
• PyPI
• Documentation
• Bug Tracker
• Change Log