RFC: fix summary text for lots of packages

Ralf Corsepius rc040203 at freenet.de
Thu Nov 20 15:12:53 UTC 2008


On Thu, 2008-11-20 at 09:56 -0500, Bill Nottingham wrote:
> Josh Boyer (jwboyer at gmail.com) said: 
> > >It would also be a good idea to have a few "shining examples" for people
> > >to copy when creating new packages. When we've done that, I'll start
> > >filing bugs.
> > 
> > Just file bugs for packages you think are overly verbose.  Offer
> > alternate summaries in the bug, and a URL to your email for
> > rationale.
> 
> I'm not sure this scales across 5000 packages. So it would be good
> to have at least *something* in the guidelines.

Well, the FPG is intentionally lax on %summary's, because we had wanted
to avoid getting lot in endless discussions on something which is
technically widely meaningness.

Ralf







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