Snapcraft’s own snap summary and description are unhelpful

Metadata

Project: snapcraft (launchpad)
Number: #1750581
Type: issue
State: open
Author: ~mpt
Labels: —
Created: 2018-02-20 02:41 PM UTC
Updated: 2018-02-20 02:51 PM UTC
Closed: —

Current evaluation

Request to rewrite the snapcraft snap's store summary and description for clarity, grammar, and capitalization. 8.5 years old with zero comments, labels, or maintainer interaction; current store listing state unverified.

Suggested action: needs triage

Reason: The issue has no labels, no comments, no assignee, and zero maintainer interaction across its 3114-day lifetime, so it has never been assessed. It is a trivial cosmetic content fix (rewriting a few lines of store metadata), but I could not verify whether the quoted text ('easily create snaps', 'into Snappy enabled system') still appears on snapcraft.io/snapcraft, so a human should check the live listing before deciding to close as stale or address it.

Impact: 15 Quick Win: 13.5 Staleness: 95 Complexity: 10 Confidence: 65 Support Request: 15

Issue body

1. At a terminal enter “snap info snapcraft”, or go to <https://snapcraft.io/snapcraft>. What you see: “easily create snaps” “Snapcraft aims to make upstream developers' lives easier and as such is not a single toolset, but instead is a collection of tools that enable the natural workflow of an upstream to be extended with a simple release step into Snappy enabled system.” What the summary should do: - Begin with a capital letter. What the description should do: - Begin with a few words explaining what Snapcraft actually is. - Mention snaps. - Avoid arguing quixotically that a “collection of tools” is not a “toolset”. - Not use the distribution-centric word “upstream” twice (and maybe not use it at all). - Be grammatically correct — no “into Snappy enabled system”. - Not use the word “Snappy” anyway, unless its meaning is obvious from the context. - Replace “enable” and “enabled” with something more specific.

Evaluation history

Date	Model	Scores	Action	Summary
2026-09-01 08:10 AM UTC	qwen/qwen3.8-27b	Impact: 15 Quick Win: 13.5 Staleness: 95 Complexity: 10 Confidence: 65 Support Request: 15	needs triage	Request to rewrite the snapcraft snap's store summary and description for clarity, grammar, and capitalization. 8.5 years old with zero comments, labels, or maintainer interaction; current store listing state unverified.
2026-07-23 11:55 AM UTC	qwen/qwen3.6-35b-a3b	Staleness: 98 Complexity: 5 Confidence: 90 Support Request: 10	close stale	Request to rewrite the Snapcraft snap's summary and description for clarity and grammar. Issue is over 8 years old with no maintainer response or updates.
2026-07-22 12:19 PM UTC	qwen/qwen3.6-35b-a3b	Staleness: 95 Complexity: 10 Confidence: 90 Support Request: 0	close stale	Stale issue from 8 years ago requesting wording improvements for Snapcraft's snap metadata. No activity or maintainer response.
2026-07-09 11:16 PM UTC	qwen3.6-35b-a3b-mtp-q6	Staleness: 98 Complexity: 5 Confidence: 90 Support Request: 10	close stale	Request to improve Snapcraft snap metadata summary and description for clarity and grammar. Unaddressed for over 8 years with no maintainer interaction.
2026-06-21 01:25 PM UTC	qwen3.6-35b-moe-q4	Staleness: 98 Complexity: 5 Confidence: 90 Support Request: 10	close stale	Requests improvements to the snapcraft snap's metadata summary and description, including grammar and clarity. No maintainer response or activity in over 8 years.

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