After quite a few attempts to describe python-cloudfiles with clarity and brevity, my sponsor suggested that debian-l10n-english might be a good place to ask for help. Reading several archived threads got me excited about the possibilities, as I am not a very good wordsmith.. Full disclosure - I work at Rackspace on the Cloud Files project. I plan to package APIs for python (#543118 completed, but not uploaded), perl (ITP #538761), php, and ruby. My desires: - I would like to convey to the user what the system actually is, but I do not wish the descriptions to sound like buzzword-bingo advertisements in any way. - I think it would be nice to have a description that will be relatively portable for the various language API descriptions. - I would like to clarify with the list if it is necessary to include information to the user that they will incur usage fees, or if one could assume the user will go read the website, etc. Below are some of the possibilities we have tried and, personally, none hits me as, "that's perfect!" Some suffer from sales-speak, awkwardness, and/or repetitiveness.. and, unfortunately, we cannot change the name of the storage service, which was chosen by marketing humans. I appreciate your time looking these over and helping me out. (original internal python module description) Description: Python interface to Rackspace Cloud Files Cloud Files is a parallel virtualized distributed storage system. Unlike a traditional POSIX compliant filesystem, Cloud Files requires that applications access storage through the use of a web services API, and python-cloudfiles provides a client-side Python library for these web services. ====================== (ITP #543118 description - ideas from libnet-amazon-s3-perl package) Description: Python interface to Rackspace Cloud Files service python-cloudfiles provides a simple interface to the Rackspace Cloud Files service. "Cloud Files is reliable, scalable and affordable web-based storage for backing up and archiving all your static content". Find out more at http://www.rackspacecloud.com . To use this module you will need to sign up to Rackspace Cloud Files and provide a "user" and "key". If you use this module, you will incurr costs as specified by Rackspace. Please check the costs. If you use this module with your user and key you will be responsible for these costs. ====================== (current package description in Python Modules Team SVN) Description: Python interface to Rackspace Cloud Files python-cloudfiles is a Python interface to the Rackspace Cloud Files storage service. python-cloudfiles supports all of the container and file object operations exposed by the Cloud Files REST API, as well as methods for enabling data to be served by a public CDN. ====================== (another possible description) Description: Python interface to Rackspace Cloud Files Cloud Files is an offering from Rackspace that provides limitless data storage and access over web services. This package provides the Python interface needed to perform container and object operations, and CDN management. . To use this module you will need to sign up for Cloud Files at http://www.rackspacecloud.com, and accept the fees associated with usage. -- Kind Regards, Michael Shuler
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