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Re: Bug#185997: ITP: gnome-ticker -- Gnome Ticker is a Stock watching program.



On Mon, 2003-03-24 at 01:15, Sean Harshbarger wrote:
> I feel not to change upstream's name. I threw the gnome in because
> "Ticker" is too simple and basic. I will admit that gnome-ticker is a
> bit broad as well, however this application has plenty of room to meet
> the broad description as it is only at version 0.1.

If they had picked a decent name in the first place, we wouldn't be
having this discussion.  Not to discourage anyone writing open source
software, but rather to encourage them to make better software, I think
someone should suggest they go read the "Software Release Practice
HOWTO"[1] and the "Software Project Management HOWTO"[2].

[1] - http://tldp.org/HOWTO/Software-Release-Practice-HOWTO/index.html
[2] - http://tldp.org/HOWTO/Software-Proj-Mgmt-HOWTO/index.html

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