From kde-devel  Tue Dec 28 21:10:40 2004
From: Benjamin Meyer <ben () meyerhome ! net>
Date: Tue, 28 Dec 2004 21:10:40 +0000
To: kde-devel
Subject: Re: Descriptions of KDE packages
Message-Id: <200412281610.42686.ben () meyerhome ! net>
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On Tuesday 28 December 2004 3:44 pm, Alejandro Exojo wrote:
> Hi.
>
> >From time to time, users complain about the description of the KDE
> > packages in
>
> Debian. Sometimes is bad, others incomplete, or they simply don't found the
> name of the package searching in the descriptions. I suppose this problem
> is not Debian especific, because I suppose portage / urpmi / yum / whatever
> have similar functionality in searching packages.
>
> For a lot of applications is easy to solve looking at docs.kde.org, but for
> other packages (for example, kioslaves, kfile-plugins, some libraries...)
> can be very difficult, especially if a maintainer doesn't use all
> applications in a KDE module.
>
> Do you think it is possible and/or valuable to have some common _short_
> descriptions (1 or 2 plain text sentences) for this packages? It would be
> good to free the packagers, or at least to coordinate them to reuse this
> work?
>
> I'm posting this here, because I didn't know if should ask this to the
> kde-i18n-doc, kde-quality or kde-promo lists, so feel free to point me in
> the right direction.
>
> Greetings.

One thing to include is how people can help.  Do we just have to go to some 
website and fill in some forms?  Edit some files in cvs or ...?

- -Benjamin Meyer

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