Re: Announcing the Smith Review Project: proofreading English in Debian packages texts
On Sun, Apr 01, 2007 at 07:37:47PM +0200, Christian Perrier <bubulle@debian.org> wrote:
> Please welcome the Smith Review Project to the galaxy of Debian projects.
>
> Project presentation
> --------------------
> This work is intended to continue all through the etch->lenny release
> cycle and beyond. Its purpose is to review all English texts
> associated with Debian packages, namely debconf templates, manual
> pages and package descriptions.
>
> The project is named Smith because every nice project must have a name
> and Smith is a commonly accepted "common name" for people in
> English-speaking parts of the world. It also opens possibilities to
> play on words with "blacksmith", "wordsmith" and the like. The project also
> has a three-letter acronym name (SRP) which is mandatory in Free
> Software projects.
>
>
> Projects tasks and schedule
> ---------------------------
(...)
What about putting standardisation of descriptions and package names in
these, too ?
http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2007/02/msg00125.html
Mike
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