From: Grant Goodyear <g2boojum@gentoo.org>
To: gentoo-dev@robin.gentoo.org, gentoo-dev@robin.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] GLEP system worthwhile?
Date: Fri, 11 Mar 2005 13:42:31 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20050311194231.GD30649@dst.grantgoodyear.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20050311173408.7257fa58@sven.genone.homeip.net>
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Marius Mauch wrote: [Fri Mar 11 2005, 10:34:08AM CST]
> Suggestion: make a short (one word) descriptive name mandatory. Numbers
> get easily confused and most of the more recent GLEPs already come with
> a nickname. For example I wouldn't know offhand which GLEP would deal
> with ACCEPT_LICENSE stuff, and I'm also not sure about the real title
> (maybe it doesn't contain ACCEPT_LICENSE at all), so if I want to make a
> reference to it I actually have to look it up so people know what I'm
> talking about. Minor issue, but really annoying over time.
I agree with the sentiment, although I think a one-word limit may be a
bit draconian. For example, Ciaran's latest GLEP is titled
"Per-Category metadata.xml files". I think that title is perfectly
succinct, and I lack the creativity necessary to come up with an
equivalent one-word version.
-g2boojum-
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Thread overview: 33+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-03-11 14:39 [gentoo-dev] GLEP system worthwhile? Grant Goodyear
2005-03-11 15:02 ` Ciaran McCreesh
2005-03-11 15:47 ` Daniel Ostrow
2005-03-11 15:50 ` Ian Leitch
2005-03-11 15:58 ` Ciaran McCreesh
2005-03-11 16:09 ` Ian Leitch
2005-03-11 17:05 ` Chris Gianelloni
2005-03-11 17:40 ` Ian Leitch
2005-03-11 18:24 ` Ciaran McCreesh
2005-03-11 20:28 ` Ian Leitch
2005-03-11 20:30 ` Ciaran McCreesh
2005-03-11 21:01 ` Ian Leitch
2005-03-11 21:30 ` Martin Schlemmer
2005-03-11 22:07 ` Donnie Berkholz
2005-03-11 18:39 ` Chris Gianelloni
2005-03-11 18:42 ` Ciaran McCreesh
2005-03-11 16:28 ` Marius Mauch
2005-03-11 19:40 ` Grant Goodyear
2005-03-11 19:59 ` Donnie Berkholz
2005-03-11 20:13 ` Ciaran McCreesh
2005-03-11 20:16 ` Donnie Berkholz
2005-03-11 17:03 ` Chris Gianelloni
2005-03-11 19:25 ` Grant Goodyear
2005-03-11 20:59 ` Ian Leitch
2005-03-11 21:10 ` Mike Frysinger
2005-03-11 21:31 ` Martin Schlemmer
2005-03-11 21:33 ` Ciaran McCreesh
2005-03-11 21:54 ` Martin Schlemmer
2005-03-11 23:34 ` Luis F. Araujo
2005-03-11 16:10 ` Benjamin A. Collins
2005-03-11 16:34 ` Marius Mauch
2005-03-11 19:42 ` Grant Goodyear [this message]
2005-03-14 13:09 ` Thierry Carrez
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