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Re: description writing guide



On Wed, 2002-12-04 at 18:58, Daniel Burrows wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 04, 2002 at 12:55:50PM -0500, Colin Walters <walters@debian.org> was heard to say:
> > I think the package descriptions are a very important product of this
> > project.  They're going to be one of the first things people see when
> > they use Debian, and their quality directly reflects on the quality of
> > Debian.  I've been putting in some random efforts here and there to
> > comment on new package descriptions, but I finally sat down and
> > committed my thoughts on description writing in a semi-coherent form:
> > 
> > http://people.debian.org/~walters/descriptions.html
> 
>   Ooh, goody :)  Does this mean #45943 will finally be fixed?

Well, we obviously can't force anyone to do anything; but I hope that
having the reasoning more clearly laid out will motivate people...



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