There are inconsistencies everywhere there can be, because there is no way to enforce consistency (no rules will suffice for all packages). Your ideas for "encouraging" are reasonable, but it's pretty pointless to expect people to spontaneously fix such things -- that just won't happen. And your three one-sentence short_descriptions are inconsitent in themselves, as I'm sure you realized.
Worse than the inconsistencies within Savannah are the inconsistencies even of the basic Savannah unix_group_name (which is all I have ever tried to deal with) with ftp.gnu.org, the Free Software Directory, copyright.list, etc. Improving this situation has been a long-term project for many years now, and I expect it will never be finished. Anyway, maybe we can add something to the edit-public-info pages with a clear suggestion about what to put in the fields. I admit I've never been sure myself about when/where they get used, e.g., does long_description override short_description, or get added to it? It's all been a mess since day one. Karl
