Bug#139957: period at the end of short description?
On Tue, Mar 26, 2002 at 01:10:14AM -0500, Colin Walters wrote:
> + under 80 characters. This should be a sentence fragment
> + which summarizes the key features provided by the package.
> + It should not end in a full stop (`.').
I'd rather have this be a guideline than a rule. So, I'm not sure
policy is the right place. (Sure wish we had someplace else where
guidelines could go.) But if it does go in policy, I think "should"
might be too strong.
I'd rather have it specify a noun clause instead of a sentence
fragment (if we're going to specify anything).
I agree about the full stop. (Although I still think "should" might
be too strong.)
If we're going to discuss leading caps or not, I agree with Branden:
not unless it would be capitalized for other reasons (i.e. "GNOME").
Maybe we can make it a footnote. (Footnotes aren't normative, are
they?)
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