Hi! You've received this email because you're listed as a maintainer of one or more packages in Fedora with a "poor summary"[1]. We've been discussing recently about adding clarification to the package guidelines, specifically about what makes a good package summary, and I would like people to fix as many existing packages as possible: Our default GUI packaging tool makes the summary more prominent than the package name. The summary is often a better description for the end user when making a decision about installing. To make the user's experience better here, we try to have short succinct summaries that don't repeat the package name. The summary needs to show differentiators that help the user choose which package to take a look at in more detail. Depending on the type of package we're looking at some of these should have different information than others. Libraries should also make clear what programming language they're useful for in addition to their claim to fame. The summary should also be a noun phrase, for example "DVD and CD authoring software" rather than "Create video DVDs and CDs". For some packages it may be helpful to expand the package name that is an acronym, e.g. for the package "gimp", the summary could be "GNU Image Manipulation Program". Good examples: * Package management service * XQuery and XPath 2.0 library for Xerces-C * Simple video DVD and CD authoring software * Feature rich media player * Media Player from the Mozilla Foundation * Gstreamer based media player * Customizable media player Bad examples: * System daemon that is a DBUS abstraction layer for package management (too verbose) * XQilla is an XQuery and XPath 2.0 library, built on top of Xerces-C (repeating the program name) * DeVeDe is a program to create video DVDs and CDs (VCD, sVCD or CVD) (too much detail) Lots of people have already patched the summary in devel. If you've already patched your package, or think the summary of your package is fine (or you don't think it can be changed or made better), please delete this email with my sincere apologies. If you have any questions or just want me to commit a new summary and leave you alone, please feel free to email me back and ask me to do it. Many thanks, Richard Hughes [1] where "bad" is defined by a simple hacky tool written by me, and isn't a reflection on you as a maintainer. :-)
words A dictionary of English words for the /usr/share/dict directory zlib The zlib compression and decompression library libsmbios Libsmbios shared libraries openssl The OpenSSL toolkit mailx Enhanced implementation of the mailx command procmail The procmail mail processing program gsm Shared libraries for GSM speech compressor eject A program that ejects removable media using software control. hesiod Hesiod libraries. ftp The standard UNIX FTP (File Transfer Protocol) client bc GNU's bc (a numeric processing language) and dc (a calculator) attr Utilities for managing filesystem extended attributes talk Talk client for one-on-one Internet chatting. telnet The client program for the telnet remote login protocol. zip A file compression and packaging utility compatible with PKZIP tree A utility which displays a tree view of the contents of directories finger The finger client joystick Utilities for configuring most popular joysticks. cairomm Cairomm is the C++ API for the cairo graphics library ppp The PPP (Point-to-Point Protocol) daemon. enchant An Enchanting Spell Checking Library unique Unique instance support for applications loudmouth Loudmouth is a Jabber programming library written in C libnotify libnotify notification library passwd The passwd utility for setting/changing passwords using PAM rarian Rarian is a documentation meta-data library gtkspell GtkSpell provides on-the-fly spell checking for GtkTextView widgets prelink An ELF prelinking utility setup A set of system configuration and setup files grep The GNU versions of grep pattern matching utilities lzma LZMA utils ntp The NTP daemon and utilities ncurses Ncurses support utilities rsh Clients for remote access commands (rsh, rlogin, rcp). openldap The configuration files, libraries, and documentation for OpenLDAP metacity Metacity window manager man A set of documentation tools: man, apropos and whatis fuse File System in Userspace (FUSE) utilities foomatic Foomatic printer database. abiword The AbiWord word processor tcl Tcl scripting language development environment raptor Raptor RDF Parser Toolkit for Redland patch The GNU patch command, for modifying/upgrading files boost The Boost C++ Libraries rasqal Rasqal RDF Query Library libgdiplus libgdiplus: An Open Source implementation of the GDI+ API arts aRts (analog realtime synthesizer) - the KDE sound system texinfo Tools needed to create Texinfo format documentation files hyphen A text hyphenation library redland Redland RDF Application Framework lash LASH Audio Session Handler goffice Goffice support libraries methane Super Methane Brothers qemu QEMU is a FAST! processor emulator screen A screen manager that supports multiple logins on one terminal rcs Revision Control System (RCS) file version management tools imake imake source code configuration and build system gob2 GOB2, The GObject Builder hsqldb Hsqldb Database Engine live555 Live555.com streaming libraries samba The Samba Suite of programs file A utility for determining file types openssh The OpenSSH implementation of SSH protocol versions 1 and 2 hunspell Hunspell is a spell checker and morphological analyzer library git Core git tools xkeyboard-config xkeyboard-config alternative xkb data files perl The Perl programming language tomboy Tomboy is a desktop note-taking application for Linux and Unix nautilus Nautilus is a file manager for GNOME frysk Frysk execution analysis and debugging tools gbrainy Gbrainy is a brain teaser game and trainer to keep your brain trained bash The GNU Bourne Again shell (bash) version 3.2 mdadm The mdadm program controls Linux md devices (software RAID arrays) ed The GNU line editor rpm The RPM package management system jzlib JZlib re-implementation of zlib in pure Java ant Ant build tool for java jetty The Jetty Webserver and Servlet Container gedit gEdit is a small but powerful text editor for GNOME qt Qt toolkit audit User space tools for 2.6 kernel auditing gstreamer GStreamer streaming media framework runtime system-config-services system-config-services is an initscript and xinetd configuration utility kernel The Linux kernel plymouth Plymouth Graphical Boot Animation and Logger firefox Mozilla Firefox Web browser grub GRUB - the Grand Unified Boot Loader. mixxx Mixxx is open source software for DJ'ing numlockx NumLockX turns on NumLock after starting X scrip Spherical Coordinate Remapping and Interpolation Package (SCRIP) ipe The Ipe extensible drawing editor csound Csound - sound synthesis language and library rvm RVM library jthread JThread provides classes to make use of threads easy on different platforms classworlds Classworlds Classloader Framework remoot ReMoot is a remote control wrapper boo Boo is an OO statically typed language for CLI qgit QGit is a git GUI repository browser clipsmm Clipsmm is a C++ wrapper for the CLIPS C library gupnp-tools GUPnP-tools is a collection of dev tools utilising GUPnP and GTK+ pyscript PyScript - Postscript graphics with Python keurocalc KEurocalc is a universal currency converter and calculator xbase XBase compatible database library librfid The librfid is a Free Software RFID library valknut Valknut is a QT Direct Connect client q Equational programming language calc Arbitrary precision arithmetic system and calculator jsr-305 Reference implementations and tests for JSR-305 openhpi openhpi Hardware Platform Interface (HPI) library and tools libnova Libnova is a general purpose astronomy & astrodynamics library unifdef Unifdef tool for removing ifdef'd lines zile Zile Is Lossy Emacs avogadro Avogadro is an advanced Molecular editor munipack The C-Munipack is an astrophotometry software package curry M?nster Curry compiler lcdproc LCDproc displays real-time system information on a 20x4 backlit LCD ccid Generic USB CCID smart card reader driver bigloo Bigloo is compiler for the Scheme programming language why Why software verification platform sagator SAGATOR - antivir/antispam gateway for smtp server gshutdown GShutDown is an advanced shut down utility for GNOME konversation Konversation is a user friendly IRC client for KDE trac Enhanced wiki and issue tracking system mugshot Companion software for mugshot.org flumotion Flumotion - the Fluendo Streaming Server preload Preload is an adaptive readahead daemon cduce CDuce is a modern XML-oriented functional language xprobe2 Xprobe2 is an active operating system fingerprinting tool fbterm FbTerm is a fast terminal emulator for linux with frame buffer device privoxy Privoxy - privacy enhancing proxy ants Guide your ants safely home before they drop of the cliff contacts Contacts addressbook john John the Ripper password cracker cogito The Cogito Version Control System chess 3D chess game alliance Alliance VLSI CAD Sytem scrub Disk scrubbing program PythonCard PythonCard GUI construction toolkit elilo ELILO linux boot loader for EFI-based systems hardlink Create a tree of hardlinks Terminal X Terminal Emulator dirac Dirac is an open source video codec sopwith SDL port of the sopwith game lure Lure of the Temptress - Adventure Game immix Immix, an image mixer pymol PyMOL Molecular Graphics System condor Condor: High Throughput Computing netbeans NetBeans Integrated Development Environment (IDE) hdhomerun HDHomeRun configuration utility xguest Creates xguest user as a locked down user emacs GNU Emacs text editor tftp The client for the Trivial File Transfer Protocol (TFTP) scipy Scipy: Scientific Tools for Python inksmoto Inksmoto Level Editor is the new xmoto level editor gnucash GnuCash is an application to keep track of your finances curlftpfs CurlFtpFS is a filesystem for accessing FTP hosts based on FUSE and libcurl amtu Abstract Machine Test Utility (AMTU) extrema Extrema is a powerful visualization and data analysis tool monit Manages and monitors processes, files, directories and devices bittorrent BitTorrent swarming network file transfer tool lapack The LAPACK libraries for numerical linear algebra. coq Coq proof management system psad Port Scan Attack Detector (psad) watches for suspect traffic thunderbird Mozilla Thunderbird mail/newsgroup client ctrlproxy ctrlproxy BackupPC BackupPC - high-performance backup system gupnp GUPnP is an framework for creating UPnP devices & control points dbmail The DBMail mail storage system wmapmload Wmapmload monitors your apm status in an lcd display fashion ultimatestunts UltimateStunts is a remake of the famous DOS-game Stunts ladspa LADSPA SDK, example plug-ins and tools dia Diagram drawing program bitbake BitBake build tool mew Mew - Messaging in the Emacs World. stgit StGIT provides similar functionality to Quilt on top of GIT FlightGear The FlightGear Flight Simulator jpilot Jpilot pilot desktop software pyroom PyRoom is a full screen text editor and a clone of Writeroom acpi Command-line ACPI client crm114 CRM114 Bayesian Spam Detector sec SEC (simple event correlator) gssdp GSSDP implements resource discovery and announcement over SSDP freeze freeze/melt/fcat compression utilities bit bit is a C++ library to simplify bit stream parsing kazehakase Kazehakase browser using Gecko rendering engine geoclue Geoclue is a modular geoinformation service lwp LWP thread library R A language for data analysis and graphics lam The LAM (Local Area Multicomputer) programming environment. uucp The uucp utility for copying files between systems namazu Namazu is a full-text search engine dialog A utility for creating TTY dialog boxes mono-zeroconf Mono-zeroconf namespace kpowersave KPowersave is the KDE frontend for powermanagement crack Password cracker rxvt-unicode Rxvt-unicode is an unicode version of rxvt haddock Haddock documentation tool for annotated Haskell source code siege Siege is an http regression testing and benchmarking utility clips CLIPS language for developing expert systems nsd NSD is a complete implementation of an authoritative DNS name server synaptics Synaptics Touchpad Driver Inventor SGI Open Inventor (TM) asylum SDL port of the game Asylum, originally for the Archimedes xjavadoc The XJavaDoc engine Glide3 Glide3 runtime for the 3Dfx Voodoo family of cards heartbeat Heartbeat subsystem for High-Availability Linux sunbird Mozilla Sunbird Calendar CastPodder CastPodder is a Media Aggregator barcode generates barcodes from text strings freeipmi FreeIPMI twitux Twitux is a Twitter client for the Gnome desktop hercules Hercules S/370, ESA/390, and z/Architecture emulator xpa The XPA messaging system jrefactory JRefactory and Pretty Print drascula Drascula: The Vampire Strikes Back tempest Tempest OpenGL screensaver grass GRASS - Geographic Resources Analysis Support System nant NAnt is a build tool for Mono and .NET cgdb CGDB is a curses-based interface to the GNU Debugger (GDB) pyzor Pyzor collaborative spam filtering system GLC_Player GLC_Player is an Open Source software used to view 3d models (OBJ Format) doodle Doodle is a tool to quickly search the documents on a computer gypsy Gypsy is a GPS multiplexing daemon dovecot Dovecot Secure imap server PySBIG PySBIG can read SBIG CCD files fatsort Fatsort sorts the FAT of FAT16 and FAT32 filesystems freeciv The Freeciv multi-player strategy game adaptx AdaptX XSLT processor and XPath engine powerman PowerMan - Power to the Cluster brandy Brandy - A BBC BASIC interpreter for Linux fetchlog The fetchlog utility displays the last new messages of a logfile sl Joke command for when you type 'sl' instead of 'ls' blobby Blobby Volley 2, a volley-ball game mousepad Mousepad - A simple text editor for Xfce geos GEOS is a C++ port of the Java Topology Suite hamcrest Hamcrest matcher object framework elsa ELSA is an enhanced Linux system accounting cylindrix Cylindrix is a 3 degrees of freedom combat game openais The openais Standards-Based Cluster Framework executive and APIs bibletime BibleTime is an easy to use Bible study tool for KDE dxcc Small utility which determines the ARRL DXCC entity of a ham radio callsign hotwire Hotwire Shell nagios Nagios monitors hosts and services and yells if somethings breaks arc Arc archiver pachi Pachi El Marciano - Platform Game ircd-ratbox Ircd-ratbox is an advanced, stable and fast ircd siril Siril is an astronomical image processing software for Linux gupnp-av GUPnP-AV is a collection of helpers for building UPnP AV applications crash crash utility for live systems; netdump, diskdump, kdump, LKCD or mcore dumpfiles greyhounds Greyhounds is a greyhounds racing and breeding game rpc2 RPC2 library papyrus Papyrus is a C++ canvas library similar to the Gnome canvas kawa Kawa scheme implementation wildmidi WildMidi softsynth midi player esorex EsoRex is the European Southern Observatory Recipe Execution Tool tcldom TclDOM is a package that provides a DOM binding for the Tcl scripting language conmux ConMux - The Console Multiplexor jrtplib JRTPLIB is an object-oriented RTP library written in C++ accrete Accrete is a physical simulation of solar system planet formation id3v2 Command line id3v2 tag editor crossfire Server for hosting crossfire games automoc KDE4 automoc aiccu AICCU - SixXS Automatic IPv6 Connectivity Client Utility bind The Berkeley Internet Name Domain (BIND) DNS (Domain Name System) server E Equational Theorem Prover xournal Xournal notetaking, sketching and PDF annotation OpenIPMI OpenIPMI (Intelligent Platform Management Interface) library and tools openjpeg OpenJPEG command line tools gambit-c Gambit-C Scheme programming system conman ConMan - The Console Manager xforms XForms toolkit library naturette Naturette, an AGI adventure game bitmap Bitmap editor and converter utilities for the X Window System varnish Varnish is a high-performance HTTP accelerator gromacs GROMACS binaries nas The Network Audio System (NAS) audit User space tools for 2.6 kernel auditing itaka Itaka is an on-demand screen capture server jss Java Security Services (JSS) inn The InterNetNews (INN) system, an Usenet news server alpine UW Alpine mail user agent abgraph ABGraph is a simple tool to benchmark webservers wordpress WordPress blogging software nightfall Nightfall is an astronomy application for emulation of eclipsing stars sip SIP - Python/C++ Bindings Generator xen Xen is a virtual machine monitor corosync The Corosync Cluster Engine and Application Programming Interfaces amqp The AMQP specification most more, less, most elice Elice is a PureBasic to C++ translator / compiler libident New LibIdent C library cone CONE mail reader freehoo Freehoo is a free console based messenger for Yahoo IM Service kshutdown KShutDown is an advanced shut down utility for KDE 3 tkcvs TkCVS and TkDiff xvarstar XVarStar is an astronomical program used for searching GCVS Miro Miro - Internet TV Player concurrent Utility classes for concurrent Java programming freemarker FreeMarker template engine trustedqsl TrustedQSL ham-radio applications teg Turn based strategy game tclxml TclXML is a package that provides XML parsing for the Tcl scripting language quesa Quesa QuickDraw 3D implementation sim SIM - Multiprotocol Instant Messenger beep Beep the PC speaker any number of ways messiggy Messiggy is a database of celestial objects nxt_python Nxt_python is a package for controlling a LEGO NXT robot using python oyranos The Oyranos Colour Management System (CMS) moin MoinMoin is a WikiEngine to collaborate on easily editable web pages horde The common Horde Framework for all Horde applications coolkey CoolKey PKCS #11 module gadmin-squid GADMIN-SQUID -- A GTK+ administation tool for the Squid proxy server postfix Postfix Mail Transport Agent sshfp Generate SSHFP DNS records from knownhosts files or ssh-keyscan squirrelmail SquirrelMail webmail client ren Rename multiple files freecol The FreeCol multi-player strategy game Falcon The Falcon Programming Language modello Modello Data Model toolkit squid The Squid proxy caching server tasks Tasks to-do list diction Identifies diction and style errors exim The exim mail transfer agent bygfoot Bygfoot Football Manager mathmap MathMap GIMP Plug-In and Command-Line Tool pinball Emilia Pinball game cpqarrayd Cpqarrayd is a daemon to monitor HP (compaq) arraycontrollers urlgfe Urlgfe download manager nntpgrab NNTPGrab is a program to download files from the usenet mediatomb MediaTomb - UPnP AV Mediaserver for Linux proj Cartographic projection software (PROJ.4) pgfouine PgFouine PostgreSQL log analyzer lazarus Lazarus Component Library and IDE for Freepascal Thunar Thunar File Manager snobol Macro Implementation of SNOBOL4 in C quake3 Quake 3 Arena engine (ioquake3 version) filezilla FileZilla FTP, FTPS and SFTP client prelude-manager Prelude-Manager pypar2 PyPar2 is a graphical frontend for the Linux par2 command line dhcp DHCP (Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol) server and relay agent pptp Point-to-Point Tunneling Protocol (PPTP) Client beagle The Beagle Search Infrastructure ganglia Ganglia Distributed Monitoring System vdrift VDrift is a cross-platform, open source driving/drift racing simulation cohoba Cohoba is a GNOME interface for Telepathy. It aims to be innovative and simple bitgtkmm The bitgtkmm library provides gtkmm widgets for the bit library blt BLT widget extension to Tcl/Tk scripting language development pic2aa Pic2AA is tool for converting jpeg/png to AA (Ascii Art) images emacspeak emacspeak -- The Complete Audio Desktop node Simple node front end, modelled after the node shells of TheNet and G8BPQ nodes rmap Rmap is a package that is able to generate images of the earth from a distance licq Licq - A graphical ICQ Client for Linux arj Archiver for .arj files wklej A wklej.org submitter wordpress-mu WordPress-MU multi-user blogging software php The PHP HTML-embedded scripting language phasex PHASEX -- Phase Harmonic Advanced Synthesis EXperiment writer2latex Writer2LateX Document Converter ember Ember - a client for Worldforge postgresql PostgreSQL client programs and libraries enlightenment Enlightenment DR17 - a next generation desktop shell alt-ergo Alt-Ergo automatic theorem prover kerry Kerry Beagle is a KDE frontend for the Beagle desktop search xdoclet XDoclet Attribute Orientated Programming Framework dhcpv6 DHCPv6 - DHCP server and client for IPv6 ncpfs Utilities for the ncpfs filesystem, a NetWare client for Linux xoo Xoo is a graphical wrapper around xnest fslint FSlint - a utility to find and clean lint on a filesystem cinepaint CinePaint is a tool for manipulating images textflow TextFlow is a text editor directed toward programmers openswan Openswan IPSEC implementation ice The Ice base runtime and services mysql MySQL client programs and shared libraries berusky Berusky, 2D logic game xqilla XQilla is an XQuery and XPath 2.0 library, built on top of Xerces-C
perl-XML-Parser A low level Perl module for parsing XML either via trees or streaming gbrainy Gbrainy is a brain teaser game and trainer to keep your brain trained coreutils The GNU core utilities: a set of tools commonly used in shell scripts atop An advanced interactive monitor to view the load on system and process level perl-Bit-Vector Efficient bit vector, set of integers and big int math library php-pear-PHP-CompatInfo Find out version and extensions required for a piece of code to run escape A fun puzzle game in the tradition of Adventures of Lolo or Chip's Challenge atomix Little mind game where you have to build molecules out of atoms lying around gmrun Lightweight Run program dialog box with search history and tab completion rss2email Deliver news from RSS feeds to your smtp server as text or html mail perl-IPC-Run3 Run a subprocess in batch mode (a la system) on Unix, Win32, etc curlftpfs CurlFtpFS is a filesystem for accessing FTP hosts based on FUSE and libcurl perl-Object-MultiType Perl Objects as Hash, Array, Scalar, Code and Glob at the same time perl-Lingua-EN-Numbers-Ordinate Perl functions for giving the ordinal form of a number given its cardinal value wraplinux Utility to wrap a Linux kernel and initrd into an ELF or NBI file perl-HTTP-BrowserDetect Determine the Web browser, version, and platform from an HTTP user agent string dwdiff Front end to diff for comparing files on a word per word basis DivFix++ A program to repair broken AVI file streams by rebuilding index part of file perl-Carp-Clan Report errors from perspective of caller of a clan of modules GLC_Player GLC_Player is an Open Source software used to view 3d models (OBJ Format) xqilla10 XQilla is an XQuery and XPath 2.0 library, built on top of Xerces-C dxcc Small utility which determines the ARRL DXCC entity of a ham radio callsign R-RScaLAPACK An interface to perform parallel computation on linear algebra problems using ScaLAPACK crash crash utility for live systems; netdump, diskdump, kdump, LKCD or mcore dumpfiles ddrescue Data recovery tool trying hard to rescue data in case of read errors tcldom TclDOM is a package that provides a DOM binding for the Tcl scripting language efax A program for faxing using a Class 1, 2 or 2.0 fax modem. nautilus-search-tool A Nautilus extension to put Search for Files on the context menu of folders smstools Tools to send and receive short messages through GSM modems or mobile phones xmlsec1 Library providing support for XML Signature and XML Encryption standards libnjb A software library for talking to the Creative Nomad Jukeboxes and Dell DJs mod_suphp An apache2 module for executing PHP scripts with the permissions of their owners tclxml TclXML is a package that provides XML parsing for the Tcl scripting language perl-Schedule-Cron-Events Take a line from a crontab and find out when events will occur cohoba Cohoba is a GNOME interface for Telepathy. It aims to be innovative and simple node Simple node front end, modelled after the node shells of TheNet and G8BPQ nodes rmap Rmap is a package that is able to generate images of the earth from a distance perl-GO-TermFinder Identify GO nodes that annotate a group of genes with a significant p-value bouml UML2 tool box to specify and generate code in C++, Java, IDL, PHP and Python perl-Module-Locate Locate modules in the same fashion as require and use fslint FSlint - a utility to find and clean lint on a filesystem xqilla XQilla is an XQuery and XPath 2.0 library, built on top of Xerces-C khmeros-fonts-base Base Khmer font set created by Danh Hong of the Cambodian Open Institute twolame-libs TwoLAME is an optimised MPEG Audio Layer 2 encoding library based on tooLAME
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