Afaik, squeak source is a bare repository, like looking into someone's 
darcs/svn tree.  If they put up a description fine, if not fine.  If the 
package is public it should be accessible via Universes or Squeakmap, where 
it *should* have a useful description.


>From: "j blatter" <jblatter62 at gmail.com>
>Reply-To: The general-purpose Squeak developers 
>list<squeak-dev at lists.squeakfoundation.org>
>To: "The general-purpose Squeak developers 
>list"<squeak-dev at lists.squeakfoundation.org>
>Subject: Re: SqueakSource policy
>Date: Thu, 17 May 2007 12:19:50 -0300
>
>Umm, that's a big no no Phillippe.
>
>I wonder where others communities success resides...
>Is not the right attitude for a community that wants to do the things right
>(and AFAIK that's one of the values that promotes Smalltalk). If 
>SourceForge
>allows to register projects without descriptions or content is their
>problem.
>I don't buy the people is too lazy about writing 20 words for a description
>but not to write code and upload to the server.
>
>To send an e-mail to the authors or figuring out what a project does each
>time or worst, loading the package and reading the code, is step on 
>people's
>balls too (and to more people out there). Am I so confused or wrong asking
>for this?
>
>
>2007/5/17, Philippe Marschall <philippe.marschall at gmail.com>:
>>
>>2007/5/17, subbukk <subbukk at gmail.com>:
>> > On Thursday 17 May 2007 6:55 pm, Ralph Johnson wrote:
>> > > The main reason why most project on SqueakSource don't have a decent
>> > > project description is because most people are lazy.
>> > A rule isn't a rule unless it is enforced!
>> >
>> > How about rejecting project submissions unless they come with atleast 
>>20
>>words
>> > in their description? Surely, creating a 20-word abstract shouldn't be
>>too
>> > much of a burden for someone who has put in so much effort into a
>>project.
>>
>>Which part of "we don't want to step on people's balls" wasn't clear?
>>
>>Cheers
>>Philippe
>>
>> > Regards .. Subbu
>> >
>> >
>>
>>


>

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