Christian PERRIER wrote:
> Template: sftpcloudfs/auth-url
> Type: string
> Default: https://auth.api.rackspacecloud.com/v1.0
> +_Description: Authentication server URL:
> + In order to authenticate its users, SFTPCloudFS needs to connect to an
> + authentication server (such as RackSpace Cloud Files or OpenStack).
> + Please enter the URL of that server.
> .
> + URL examples:
> + * Rackspace in USA: https://auth.api.rackspacecloud.com/v1.0
> + * Rackspace in UK: https://lon.auth.api.rackspacecloud.com/v1.0
> + * Swift: URLs such as https://example.com/v1.0
Good idea. Maybe for even neater colon-symmetry:
URL examples:
* Rackspace in the US: https://auth.api.rackspacecloud.com/v1.0
* Rackspace in the UK: https://lon.auth.api.rackspacecloud.com/v1.0
* Swift: some URL like https://example.com/v1.0 (or an IP address)
(also cramming in some extra info at the end).
Meanwhile in the package description:
> Package: sftpcloudfs
[...]
> Description: SFTP interface to Rackspace Cloud Files and OpenStack Object
> Storage
That's just on the edge of being too long. Could we afford to make it:
Description: SFTP interface to Rackspace/OpenStack storage services
and leave the full names for the long description?
> SFTP (Secure File Transfer Protocol) interface to Rackspace Cloud Files and
> OpenStack Object Storage, providing a service that acts as a proxy between a
> SFTP client and a remote files/storage service.
Make that a sentence by prefixing "this package provides an..."; but
then avoid repetition by turning "providing a service that acts..."
into just "acting...".
Hard-to-spot article error: "between AN esseffteepee client..."
"A remote files/storage service" seems wrong (especially once it's
repeated for the third time), mainly because it's slightly unnatural
to talk about "a files service" (plural), but also because I can't see
what the reference to files adds to this: what would a storage service
store if not files? When I Google the expression I find sftpcloudfs
and nothing else; so I'll change it throughout to just "a remote
storage service".
> .
> The username/password pair used to open the SFTP session is validated using
> the
> authentication service of the files/storage service to get an authentication
> token.
> .
> The communication between the client and the SFTP daemon is encrypted all the
> time, and the SFTP service supports HTTPS communication with the remote
> files/storage service.
I don't follow this (so I won't try to rephrase it). It seems obvious
that client/server connections are encrypted (this isn't plain old
insecure-FTP!), so is this maybe emphasising that one side of
sftpcloudfs uses SSH and the other uses SSL/TLS?
--
JBR with qualifications in linguistics, experience as a Debian
sysadmin, and probably no clue about this particular package
diff -ru sftpcloudfs-0.7.pristine/debian/control sftpcloudfs-0.7/debian/control
--- sftpcloudfs-0.7.pristine/debian/control 2013-05-15 08:03:12.000000000
+0100
+++ sftpcloudfs-0.7/debian/control 2013-06-03 00:49:02.506683402 +0100
@@ -25,15 +25,15 @@
python-daemon,
python-cloudfiles,
python-memcache
-Description: SFTP interface to Rackspace Cloud Files and OpenStack Object
Storage
- SFTP (Secure File Transfer Protocol) interface to Rackspace Cloud Files and
- OpenStack Object Storage, providing a service that acts as a proxy between a
- SFTP client and a remote files/storage service.
+Description: SFTP interface to Rackspace/OpenStack storage services
+ This package provides an SFTP (Secure File Transfer Protocol) interface to
+ Rackspace Cloud Files and OpenStack Object Storage, acting as a proxy between
+ an SFTP client and a remote storage service.
.
The username/password pair used to open the SFTP session is validated using
the
- authentication service of the files/storage service to get an authentication
+ authentication service of the storage service to get an authentication
token.
.
The communication between the client and the SFTP daemon is encrypted all the
time, and the SFTP service supports HTTPS communication with the remote
- files/storage service.
+ storage service.
diff -ru sftpcloudfs-0.7.pristine/debian/templates
sftpcloudfs-0.7/debian/templates
--- sftpcloudfs-0.7.pristine/debian/templates 2013-05-15 08:03:12.000000000
+0100
+++ sftpcloudfs-0.7/debian/templates 2013-06-03 00:51:03.707164978 +0100
@@ -1,14 +1,12 @@
Template: sftpcloudfs/auth-url
Type: string
Default: https://auth.api.rackspacecloud.com/v1.0
-_Description: Content of the auth-url directive:
- In order to authenticate it's users, SFTPCloudFS needs to connect to an
- authentication server (eg RackSpace Cloud Files, OpenStack). Enter the
- URL of that server.
+_Description: Authentication server URL:
+ In order to authenticate its users, SFTPCloudFS needs to connect to an
+ authentication server (such as RackSpace Cloud Files or OpenStack).
+ Please enter the URL of that server.
.
- For Rackspace in US, choose https://auth.api.rackspacecloud.com/v1.0
- .
- For Rackspace in UK, choose https://lon.auth.api.rackspacecloud.com/v1.0
- .
- If you use Swift, something like this will do: https://example.com/v1.0
- (or use the IP address directly).
+ URL examples:
+ * Rackspace in the US: https://auth.api.rackspacecloud.com/v1.0
+ * Rackspace in the UK: https://lon.auth.api.rackspacecloud.com/v1.0
+ * Swift: some URL like https://example.com/v1.0 (or an IP address)
Template: sftpcloudfs/auth-url
Type: string
Default: https://auth.api.rackspacecloud.com/v1.0
_Description: Authentication server URL:
In order to authenticate its users, SFTPCloudFS needs to connect to an
authentication server (such as RackSpace Cloud Files or OpenStack).
Please enter the URL of that server.
.
URL examples:
* Rackspace in the US: https://auth.api.rackspacecloud.com/v1.0
* Rackspace in the UK: https://lon.auth.api.rackspacecloud.com/v1.0
* Swift: some URL like https://example.com/v1.0 (or an IP address)
Source: sftpcloudfs
Section: net
Priority: extra
Maintainer: PKG OpenStack <openstack-de...@lists.alioth.debian.org>
Uploaders: Loic Dachary (OuoU) <l...@debian.org>,
Julien Danjou <a...@debian.org>,
Thomas Goirand <z...@debian.org>,
Ghe Rivero <ghe.riv...@stackops.com>,
Mehdi Abaakouk <sil...@sileht.net>
Build-Depends: debhelper (>= 9), python-setuptools, python-all (>= 2.6.6-3~),
openstack-pkg-tools, po-debconf
Standards-Version: 3.9.4
Vcs-Browser: http://anonscm.debian.org/gitweb/?p=openstack/sftpcloudfs.git
Vcs-Git: git://anonscm.debian.org/openstack/sftpcloudfs.git
Homepage: https://github.com/Memset/sftpcloudfs
Package: sftpcloudfs
Architecture: all
Pre-Depends: dpkg (>= 1.15.6~)
Depends: ${python:Depends}, ${misc:Depends},
adduser,
debconf,
python-ftp-cloudfs (>= 0.19),
openssh-client,
python-paramiko,
python-daemon,
python-cloudfiles,
python-memcache
Description: SFTP interface to Rackspace/OpenStack storage services
This package provides an SFTP (Secure File Transfer Protocol) interface to
Rackspace Cloud Files and OpenStack Object Storage, acting as a proxy between
an SFTP client and a remote storage service.
.
The username/password pair used to open the SFTP session is validated using the
authentication service of the storage service to get an authentication
token.
.
The communication between the client and the SFTP daemon is encrypted all the
time, and the SFTP service supports HTTPS communication with the remote
storage service.
