Re: Usability: Technical details in package descriptions?

[Steve Greenland <steveg@moregruel.net>]

On 20-Jul-05, 15:18 (CDT), Lars Wirzenius <liw@liw.iki.fi> wrote: 
> ke, 2005-07-20 kello 14:47 -0500, Steve Greenland kirjoitti:
> Given 15000 packages, and 20 volunteers, and on average two minutes per
> description (given that most descriptions probably only need little or
> no tweaking), this would take only about 24 hours.
> 
> This would require people who can proof-read and fix English text pretty
> well, however. A checklist of things to watch out for would help, but
> isn't enough.

I think 2 min/pkg for *spotting* problems is reasonable, but not nearly
enough for fixing them. Decent writing is non-trivial.

Steve

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Steve Greenland
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