RFC: fix summary text for lots of packages

Josh Boyer jwboyer at gmail.com
Thu Nov 20 16:19:52 UTC 2008


On Thu, Nov 20, 2008 at 09:56:28AM -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.

You're assuming that all 5000 packages need fixing.  I doubt that's
the case.

Also, the bugs need to be filed either way.  So the scaling argument
still applies and adding a guideline for this is really just unneeded
work...

josh




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