Re: Bug#194938: ITP: drivel -- A LiveJournal client for the GNOME desktop
Hi David! You wrote: I think the service is popular enough that you don't need to explain what it is, I had never heard of it. in the same way that you don't need to explain what an SNMP daemon is to have and snmpd package. I thik you need to explain that, too. You can't expect everyone to know that. -- Kind regards, ++ | Bas Zoetekouw | GPG key: 0644fab7 | || Fingerprint: c1f5 f24c d514 3fec 8bf6 | | [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] | a2b1 2bae e41f 0644 fab7 | ++
Re: Bug#194938: ITP: drivel -- A LiveJournal client for the GNOME desktop
On Wed, May 28, 2003 at 11:33:25PM -0400, David Z Maze wrote: [...] I think the service is popular enough that you don't need to explain what it is, in the same way that you don't need to explain what an SNMP daemon is to have and snmpd package. Ironically: Package: snmpd Description: NET SNMP (Simple Network Management Protocol) Agents. The NET SNMP agent allows remote monitoring of various network and system information. This is a good enough explanation for me. Richard Braakman
Re: Bug#194938: ITP: drivel -- A LiveJournal client for the GNOME desktop
David Z Maze [EMAIL PROTECTED] a tapoté : example, which has a somewhat similar package description). I think the service is popular enough that you don't need to explain what it is, in the same way that you don't need to explain what an SNMP daemon is to have and snmpd package. A good description, IHMO, should not be based on assumptions on the popularity of something. Because a description should be meaningful for everyone, shouldn't it? -- Mathieu Roy Homepage: http://yeupou.coleumes.org Not a native english speaker: http://stock.coleumes.org/doc.php?i=/misc-files/flawed-english
Re: Bug#194938: ITP: drivel -- A LiveJournal client for the GNOME desktop
On Thu, May 29, 2003 at 11:15:23AM +0200, Mathieu Roy wrote: David Z Maze [EMAIL PROTECTED] a tapoté : example, which has a somewhat similar package description). I think the service is popular enough that you don't need to explain what it is, in the same way that you don't need to explain what an SNMP daemon is to have and snmpd package. A good description, IHMO, should not be based on assumptions on the popularity of something. Because a description should be meaningful for everyone, shouldn't it? Hi all, It's been updated to: Description: A LiveJournal client for the GNOME desktop Drivel is a LiveJournal.com (and other web based journal systems) client for the GNOME desktop. . It supports all livejournal-based servers, and allows you to perform most functions that are supported by the server (posting, friends editing, friend groups, friend page checking, post editing etc). . It is designed to utilize the new features of GNOME 2.0 including GConf and GTK 2.0. Hope this is satisfatory with everyone. Neil -- 16 Channels in mode 4 I disclaim everything I can under English law. gpg key - http://www.halon.org.uk/pubkey.txt ; the.earth.li 8DEC67C5
Re: Bug#194938: ITP: drivel -- A LiveJournal client for the GNOME desktop
On Thu, May 29, 2003 at 12:02:08PM +0100, Neil McGovern wrote: On Thu, May 29, 2003 at 11:15:23AM +0200, Mathieu Roy wrote: David Z Maze [EMAIL PROTECTED] a tapoté : example, which has a somewhat similar package description). I think the service is popular enough that you don't need to explain what it is, in the same way that you don't need to explain what an SNMP daemon is to have and snmpd package. A good description, IHMO, should not be based on assumptions on the popularity of something. Because a description should be meaningful for everyone, shouldn't it? Hi all, It's been updated to: Description: A LiveJournal client for the GNOME desktop Drivel is a LiveJournal.com (and other web based journal systems) client for the GNOME desktop. . It supports all livejournal-based servers, and allows you to perform most functions that are supported by the server (posting, friends editing, friend groups, friend page checking, post editing etc). . It is designed to utilize the new features of GNOME 2.0 including GConf and GTK 2.0. If it's for GNOME you don't need to claim that it uses new GNOME2 features, more when they're not so new ;-) I'd remove that last sentence. -- Jose Carlos Garcia Sogo [EMAIL PROTECTED] pgpX68ZseDbR8.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Bug#194938: ITP: drivel -- A LiveJournal client for the GNOME desktop
Le mar 27/05/2003 à 20:42, Neil McGovern a écrit : Description : A LiveJournal client for the GNOME desktop Drivel is a LiveJournal.com client for the GNOME desktop. It supports all livejournal-based servers, and allows you to perform most functions that are supported by the server (posting, friends editing, friend groups, friend page checking, post editing etc). It is designed to utilize the new features of GNOME 2.0 including GConf and GTK 2.0. Reading this description, I have absolutely no idea abut whet this software is about. Could you please rewrite it by explaining what is a livejournal.com client ? Regards, -- .''`. Josselin Mouette/\./\ : :' : [EMAIL PROTECTED] `. `'[EMAIL PROTECTED] `- Debian GNU/Linux -- The power of freedom signature.asc Description: PGP signature
Re: Bug#194938: ITP: drivel -- A LiveJournal client for the GNOME desktop
Josselin Mouette [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Le mar 27/05/2003 à 20:42, Neil McGovern a écrit : Description : A LiveJournal client for the GNOME desktop Drivel is a LiveJournal.com client for the GNOME desktop. It supports all livejournal-based servers, and allows you to perform most functions that are supported by the server (posting, friends editing, friend groups, friend page checking, post editing etc). Reading this description, I have absolutely no idea abut whet this software is about. Could you please rewrite it by explaining what is a livejournal.com client ? http://www.livejournal.com/ is a quasi-free-as-in-beer online journaling service that seems to be fairly popular. There are a couple of other services that use the same code base, and a couple other livejournal clients already in Debian (I tend to use logjam, for example, which has a somewhat similar package description). I think the service is popular enough that you don't need to explain what it is, in the same way that you don't need to explain what an SNMP daemon is to have and snmpd package. -- David Maze [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://people.debian.org/~dmaze/ Theoretical politics is interesting. Politicking should be illegal. -- Abra Mitchell
Bug#194938: ITP: drivel -- A LiveJournal client for the GNOME desktop
Package: wnpp Version: unavailable; reported 2003-05-27 Severity: wishlist * Package name: drivel Version : 0.9.1 Upstream Author : Todd Kulesza [EMAIL PROTECTED] * URL : http://sourceforge.net/projects/drivel/ * License : GPL Description : A LiveJournal client for the GNOME desktop Drivel is a LiveJournal.com client for the GNOME desktop. It supports all livejournal-based servers, and allows you to perform most functions that are supported by the server (posting, friends editing, friend groups, friend page checking, post editing etc). It is designed to utilize the new features of GNOME 2.0 including GConf and GTK 2.0. I'm currently in the NM queue, and Chris Butler ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) will be sponsoring my upload. -- System Information: Debian Release: testing/unstable Architecture: i386 Kernel: Linux vivacia 2.4.20-1-k7-smp #1 SMP Sat Mar 22 15:58:43 EST 2003 i686 Locale: LANG=en_GB, LC_CTYPE=en_GB
