Hi Ben!

Thank you for your input.

When I posted the current synopsis I decided to re-use the  (short-)
descriptions that the upstream project uses itself. So that they look
similar. But I can re-submit this RFS, of course, to make things clearer.

/Federico Hernandez

On Wed, Jun 3, 2009 at 10:14 AM, Ben Finney
<ben+deb...@benfinney.id.au<ben%2bdeb...@benfinney.id.au>
> wrote:

> Federico Hernandez <ultrafre...@gmail.com> writes:
>
> > It builds these binary packages:
> > taskwarrior - An open source, command-line, TODO list manager
>
> Please give the full package description in your RFP, so prospective
> sponsors have more of a guide to know whether the package is of interest
> to them.
>
> As for this synopsis: The synopsis is best if it uses the limited space
> to help the readner make a decision about whether this package will meet
> their needs (at least enough to look further).
>
> All packages in Debian are free software (unless they are buggy), so
> “An open source” is not helpful.
>
> The term “TODO” isn't an initialism for anything, so it shouldn't be
> capital-letters in a sentence like this.
>
> So the synopsis could better read:
>
>    command-line to do list manager
>
> Is there anything else which the reader might like to see in the
> synopsis? Perhaps when we see the full description we can write a better
> synopsis.
>
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