There still seems to be an issue with the update descriptions that we present in PackageKit. A lot of people just write "update to version x.y.z" which is not great, but a whole lot better than some of the ones we've been seeing recently. For example, from two updates I got today: * "Not tested locally yet, I need to spin back up a Fedora 18 VM." * "Here is where you give an explanation of your update." Now the first one is obviously a one-off mistake, but had the update been checked over just once it would have been caught. The placeholder one is a big recurring problem, though: it seems to show up at least every week or so, which is not OK. And once, about two months ago -- I really should have complained then and not now -- an update was pushed where the text displayed in PackageKit was something along the lines of "why do I have to describe my update here when I've already filled out the RPM changelog." I wish it was a joke, but something like that was actually pushed as the description of a F18 update presented to every user who glances over the updates.... We need written policy on update descriptions, since despite the last discussion on this list [1], poor update descriptions continue to blemish the otherwise-professional image of the distro. A starting point suggestion: "Every update should have at least a one sentence description." If the update is not worth writing one sentence about, it is not worth pushing out. Happy Friday, Michael Catanzaro [1] https://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/devel/2013-March/179655.html
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