RFC: fix summary text for lots of packages

Michael Schwendt mschwendt at gmail.com
Thu Nov 20 20:41:02 UTC 2008


On Thu, 20 Nov 2008 15:31:23 -0500, Chuck Anderson wrote:

> On Thu, Nov 20, 2008 at 02:28:09PM -0600, Jason L Tibbitts III wrote:
> > >>>>> "RH" == Richard Hughes writes:
> > 
> > RH> XQilla is an XQuery and XPath 2.0 library, built on top
> > RH> DeVeDe is a program to create video DVDs and CDs (VCD,
> > 
> > Note that I always block reviews where the package name occurs at the
> > beginning of the summary.  I occasionally get pushback from this,
> > too.  Is there any tool we have that makes the assumption that it can
> > just print the summary and have the package name be obvious from that?
> 
> I think for some packages it is helpful to expand the package 
> name that is an acronym.

Of course. I'd bet that often the expanded acronym is a good or
sufficient summary. Such as:

  gimp - GNU Image Manipulation Program




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