Improve Documentation for 'charmcraft help clean' Command
Metadata
Current evaluation
Documentation request for `charmcraft clean` help text; current overview is brief and issue lacks specific gaps. Related PR #2795 was rejected as subpar; no maintainer triage on issue.
Suggested action: needs triage
Reason: The issue has no labels, comments, or maintainer engagement, and the body is generic — it says the docs 'lack sufficient information' without naming specific gaps. A related PR (#2795) attempted to improve clean docs but was closed unmerged after maintainer @lengau rejected it as 'subpar', so the request remains unaddressed and needs maintainer scoping.
Evaluated by: mr-cal-bot
Impact:
30
Quick Win:
6
Complexity:
30
Confidence:
70
Actionability:
30
Issue body
### What needs to get done
The current documentation for the charmcraft help clean command lacks sufficient information regarding its usage and purpose. The existing documentation fails to provide comprehensive guidance on how to effectively use this command and the specific scenarios or use cases it addresses.
### Why it needs to get done
Enhancing the documentation for the charmcraft help clean command will greatly benefit users, especially those seeking clear instructions on how to utilize this feature effectively. Improved documentation will streamline user understanding and utilization of the command within their workflow.
Evaluation history
| Date | Model | Scores | Action | Summary |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ~deepseek/deepseek-pro-latest |
Impact:
30
Quick Win:
6
Complexity:
30
Confidence:
70
Actionability:
30
|
needs triage | Documentation request for `charmcraft clean` help text; current overview is brief and issue lacks specific gaps. Related PR #2795 was rejected as subpar; no maintainer triage on issue. | |
| qwen/qwen3.6-35b-a3b |
Impact:
20
Quick Win:
11
Complexity:
10
Confidence:
70
Actionability:
60
|
needs triage | Documentation improvement request for the charmcraft clean command. Unlabelled, no maintainer engagement, open for ~2.7 years. Related PR #2795 was rejected as subpar. | |
| qwen/qwen3.8-27b |
Impact:
20
Quick Win:
16
Staleness:
55
Complexity:
20
Confidence:
55
Support Request:
10
|
needs triage | Request to improve documentation for the 'charmcraft help clean' command, which the reporter says lacks usage and purpose details. The clean command is inherited from craft-application's lifecycle module; no maintainer has responded (0 comments, no labels). | |
| qwen/qwen3.6-35b-a3b |
Staleness:
92
Complexity:
15
Confidence:
85
Support Request:
30
|
close stale | Documentation improvement request for the charmcraft help clean command. Unlabelled, zero comments, and inactive for over two years with no maintainer engagement. | |
| qwen3.6-35b-a3b-mtp-q6 |
Staleness:
90
Complexity:
10
Confidence:
80
Support Request:
5
|
close stale | Request to improve inline documentation for the charmcraft help clean command. Currently unlabelled, unassigned, with no maintainer comments or activity for over two years. | |
| qwen3.6-35b-a3b-mtp-q6 |
Staleness:
90
Complexity:
10
Confidence:
70
Support Request:
80
|
needs triage | Documentation request to improve guidance for the charmcraft clean command. Unlabelled, no maintainer interaction, and inactive for over 10 months. |
Update history
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Related work
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Related To:
charmcraft#2795
(confidence 85%)
PR attempting to improve `charmcraft clean` documentation was closed unmerged after maintainer rejected it as subpar.
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Related To:
charmcraft#1433
(confidence 80%)
Similar documentation improvement request for the analyze command, also unlabelled and open.
Related issues
| Issue | Project | State | Summary | Similarity |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| #2795 docs: improve `charmcraft clean` command documentation | charmcraft | closed | Closed unmerged; maintainer @lengau rejected the proposed charmcraft clean documentation as subpar, and no documentation commit or replacement PR landed. | |
| #1433 Improve Documentation for 'charmcraft help analyze' Command | charmcraft | open | Untriaged request for clearer analyze-command documentation; current source has a brief overview and a separate analyzer/linter reference, but no explicit resolution is recorded. | |
| #1851 How-to doc for charmcraft test | charmcraft | open | Documentation request from a maintainer to write a how-to guide for the undocumented `charmcraft test` command. Open with no labels, assignee, or maintainer triage; only an automated Jira-sync bot comment (CRAFT-3957). | |
| #188 Small text cleanups for README and charmcraft help | charmcraft | merged | Merged README and charmcraft help-text cleanups in ffc44697, updating 13 files after approval by two reviewers. | |
| #2865 docs: charmcraft release reference is badly formatted | charmcraft | open | Docs bug report: the published `charmcraft release` command reference shows `charmcraft release [options] <None> <None> <None>` in Usage, plus unformatted channel and resource examples. Untriaged, no maintainer response. | |
| #2748 docs: improve charm naming docs, with links to detailed guidance | charmcraft | merged | Docs PR #2748 merged (commit 0389aeb4): rewrote charm naming guidance in the charmcraft.yaml reference and manage-charms how-to, replacing inline best-practice notes with links to the Ops docs. Fixes #2582; relied on canonical/operator#2610. | |
| #471 config: add charm part to documentation (CRAFT-356) | charmcraft | merged | Merged PR #471 via commit e0b18661, documenting the charm part in the configuration schema for CRAFT-356. | |
| #1668 Update command docs for the unification of charmcraft.yaml | charmcraft | open | Command help still uses metadata.yaml for list-lib while lifecycle help uses charmcraft.yaml; later documentation cleanups were partial, leaving the unification task unresolved. |