microsoft / microsoft/winget-pkgs

[New Feature]: Enforce trailing periods (i.e., . ) for ShortDescription.

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Description

### Description of the new feature/enhancement

It simply looks more professional/cool (depending on the viewpoint) that way.

Even when disregarding zh/jp/ko locale YAML files, this would nevertheless affect more than a third of the repo's packages to varying extents: My counting with Sublime text showed around 4,150 packages of a total of just over 10,000.

### Proposed technical implementation details (optional)

Get a bot to run the following case-sensitive RegEx on the repo's packages:

`^(ShortDescription: [^一-拿㐀-䶿가-힣ぁ-ゟ゠-ヿ]{3,253}[A-Za-z0-9])(\n(# ?)?(Description|Tags|ManifestType|Moniker):.*)$` → `\1.\2`

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Research direction

Start by reviewing the repository's package manifests and testing the proposed case-sensitive regex against ShortDescription fields, including the locale exclusions described in the issue. Confirm how a bot could apply the change across the reported packages and define completion as the affected ShortDescription values consistently ending in periods.

Written by the indexing model from the issue text.

Assessment

Tech stack
yaml
Domain
tooling
Issue type
Feature
Difficulty
5/5
Estimated time
Over a week
Activity status
Stale
Clarity
Mostly clear
Newbie friendliness
25/100

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