Re: [PATCH] gnu: Add r-qtl.

[Pjotr Prins]

I asked the author. His response is:

Titles are meant to be short, so that they can be scanned easily. If someone 
doesn't know what it means, it's not
 going to be of interest anyway.

The synopsis is followed immediately by the description, which seems perfectly 
fine to me.
though perhaps it could be changed to:

Biostatistics library for analysis of experimental crosses to identify 
quantitative trait loci (QTLs): genes cont
ributing to variation in quantitative traits.

...neat to see it in GNU Guix.

On Fri, Sep 18, 2015 at 11:50:24AM +0200, Ludovic Courtès wrote:
> Pjotr Prins <address@hidden> skribis:
> 
> > Package descriptions I follow are the same as those by the software
> > developers. If people care about jargon feel free to fix it.
> >
> > I am happy with the original descriptions from the software authors.
> > Spelling it out won't help any users.
> 
> It will.  I tried to spell out the rationale for synopsis and
> descriptions:
> 
>   https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/guix-devel/2015-09/msg00445.html
> 
> I understand the frustration–after all you’ve already spent quite some
> time on the package I suppose and the functional part is completely
> fine.
> 
> However I think it’s important to work on maintaining a good level of
> quality for these things.  It might look like nitpicking, but it’s
> really the kind of polish that makes the tool more pleasant to use IMO.
> We all benefit from it in the end.
> 
> So, what about sending an updated patch?  :-)
> 
> Thanks for your work,
> Ludo’.
> 

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