Draft: simple update description guidelines

Rahul Sundaram sundaram at fedoraproject.org
Wed Jan 28 23:05:15 UTC 2009


Kevin Kofler wrote:
> Rahul Sundaram wrote:
>> It appears, most maintainers only have been ignoring the description
>> fields or not filling them properly because of lack of documentation or
>> awareness on how it is being used.
> 
> Some of the replies in these threads don't quite suggest that. People
> complain about the "bureaucracy" of being "forced" to write such stuff,
> which pretty much shows they intentionally do not want to fill in those
> fields and won't do it if they can get away without it.

Maybe but I am optimistic that most maintainers would want to do a good 
job and are going to be considerate of the needs of users. My primary 
goal is to help new maintainers rather than force a few opposing ones.

Rahul




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