Modification of Summary: lines

Ignacio Vazquez-Abrams ivazquez at ivazquez.net
Sun Mar 6 17:05:53 UTC 2005


On Sun, 2005-03-06 at 17:54 +0100, Enrico Scholz wrote:
> what is the rationale behind the modifiation of the Summary: lines? E.g.
> 
> | Summary:	A small libc implementation
> 
> was changed to
> 
> | Summary:	Small libc implementation
> 
> 
> Is it really a better english to omit the 'A'?

No, it's actually quite bad. IMO the Summary should answer "What is
foo?", and saying "Library for doing stuff" sounds silly versus "A
library for doing stuff".

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Ignacio Vazquez-Abrams <ivazquez at ivazquez.net>
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