[SERVER-10920] Standardize Linux package descriptions Created: 26/Sep/13 Updated: 11/Jul/16 Resolved: 19/Nov/13 |
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| Status: | Closed |
| Project: | Core Server |
| Component/s: | Packaging |
| Affects Version/s: | None |
| Fix Version/s: | 2.5.5 |
| Type: | Bug | Priority: | Major - P3 |
| Reporter: | Tyler Brock | Assignee: | Ernie Hershey |
| Resolution: | Done | Votes: | 0 |
| Labels: | 26qa | ||
| Remaining Estimate: | Not Specified | ||
| Time Spent: | Not Specified | ||
| Original Estimate: | Not Specified | ||
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| Backwards Compatibility: | Fully Compatible | ||||
| Operating System: | Linux | ||||
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| Description |
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All packages have the following description: "An object/document-oriented database" We need to have different descriptions for each of these packages that represent what is actually being installed. Now that we have separate packages we don't need to repeat what MongoDB is and instead describe what the package actually contains. Also we should probably update the description to be: "A cross-platform document-oriented database server". Consider the following:
This is what mysql does:
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| Comments |
| Comment by Githook User [ 19/Nov/13 ] |
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Author: {u'username': u'ehershey', u'name': u'Ernie Hershey', u'email': u'ernie.hershey@10gen.com'}Message: |
| Comment by Sam Kleinman (Inactive) [ 15/Oct/13 ] |
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There's not a good source for this as far as I know, however, Tyler's suggestions look good. Particularly if you drop the word "binary" or "binaries" from the end of each description as these are redundant and a bit incorrect (i.e. for the packages that include scripts, config files, and packages. |
| Comment by Ernie Hershey [ 04/Oct/13 ] |
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cc samk do you have any pointers to good places to take this copy from? |