Rahul Sundaram wrote:
It appears, most maintainers only have been ignoring the description
fields or not filling them properly because of lack of documentation or
awareness on how it is being used.
Some of the replies in these threads don't quite suggest that. People
complain about the "bureaucracy" of being "forced" to write such
stuff,
which pretty much shows they intentionally do not want to fill in those
fields and won't do it if they can get away without it.
Kevin Kofler