[opensuse-doc] Reusage and improvement of package descriptions
Hi, Some time ago at opensuse-packaging-list (http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-packaging/2007-01/msg00002.html) I was asking for some feedback about a cross-distribution project of mine called Pakanto but probably got lost in between other messages. Pakanto (http://pakanto.org) is a (currently) small project dedicated to improve/write distribution agnostic package descriptions ready for reusage for all Linux distros. I already have a few (hopefully) useful package descriptions there (not only in English!). However writing new ones from scratch instead of improving on top of existing ones is a quite time consuming job. As it is way better to improve upon a good basis such as your package descriptions (my current aim is to provide decent package descriptions for all "official" KDE packages in English and German until the first beta Release of KDE 4) I ask you if I can import all your KDE package descriptions (descriptions of software located at KDE Subversion repository) into Pakanto under its license conditions: http://pakanto.org/wiki/Pakanto:Licensing_requirements The Pakanto license conditions aren't much different from yours (I suppose your package descriptions do have the same license as the package, so they'd be mostly LGPL/GPL in case of KDE) they just add some extra caution in order to guarantee as less as possible troubles on reusing and maintaining these texts under the copyleft principle. I'd be really happy to provide you with improved and multilingual package description texts based on yours. Are you interested? Cheers, Daniel Arnold / Arnomane
Some time ago at opensuse-packaging-list (http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-packaging/2007-01/msg00002.html) I was asking for some feedback about a cross-distribution project of mine called Pakanto but probably got lost in between other messages. Pakanto (http://pakanto.org) is a (currently) small project dedicated to improve/write distribution agnostic package descriptions ready for reusage for all Linux distros. As it is way better to improve upon a good basis such as your package descriptions (my current aim is to provide decent package descriptions for all "official" KDE packages in English and German until the first beta Release of KDE 4) I ask you if I can import all your KDE package descriptions (descriptions of software located at KDE Subversion repository) into Pakanto under its license conditions: http://pakanto.org/wiki/Pakanto:Licensing_requirements
You'll have to talk to the packagers about this. The package descriptions are not considered documentation and are not maintained by the doc team. All we provide is some editing when time permits, but time rarely permits. So unfortunately we really can't help you or provide feedback. If you do end up modifying any of the SUSE texts, please make sure that they comply with the style guide. They do not comply 100% at this time, but it would be very frustrating if ones that did comply suddenly stopped. Thanks! Rebecca --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-doc+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-doc+help@opensuse.org
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Daniel Arnold
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Rebecca Walter