RFC: fix summary text for lots of packages
Richard Hughes
hughsient at gmail.com
Thu Nov 20 15:19:52 UTC 2008
On Thu, 2008-11-20 at 16:12 +0100, Ralf Corsepius wrote:
> 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.
Right, but maybe we could have a soft guideline such as:
* Summary should aim to be less than 8 words
Richard.
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