Re: Done
On Wed, 10 Sep 2003 23:44:20 -0400, Matt Zimmerman <mdz@debian.org> said:
> On Wed, Sep 10, 2003 at 10:09:09PM -0500, Manoj Srivastava wrote:
>> Package: mailagent Description: mail-processing tool Mailagent
>> allows you to process your mail automatically.
>>
>> I bet ya it would take more than a minute to take this package
>> down, find out what all it can do, and write up a description. And
>> multiply that with hundreds of packages with inadequate
>> descriptions, no wonder nothing ever gets done about it -- until
>> now.
> You'd lose that bet. It took about 8 seconds to download the
> package and look in the upstream README, which gave me a good idea
> of what sort of mail processing features it has. It also has
> several examples.
>> This program will filter all your incoming mail by applying a set
>> of rules and trying to figure out what to do with it. A message can
>> be saved in a folder, left in the main mailbox, posted to a
>> newsgroup, forwarded to other people, split if it is a digest, and
>> more. You may even delete all that mailyou do not wish to see,
>> ever. The filtering rules are specified in a notation similar to
>> lex(1).
> And that took less than a minute in total, borrowing phrases from
> the README.
Good on you. Now, tell me again, if it takes a stranger to a
package less than a minute to come up with a decent description, why
in hells name are all these *MAINTAINERS*, for gods sake, whinging
and crying all over the mailing list that no one has provided them
with a patch for the bloody description?
Is the alleged intention of the membership to create the best
distribution ever a thing of the past?
manoj
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