Bug#528943: ITP: belier -- open a shell or execute a command on a remote computer using ssh through several intermediate machines

[chaica <chaica@ohmytux.com>]

Hi Rotty,

Thanks for your interest for Belier. The english documentation will be
ready for monday and I'm going to upload a package with embedded english
documentation on mentors.debian.net for the next week. I just wanted to
begin the process and that's why I opened an ITP. But definitly I won't
let international users without documentations.

Bye,
Carl Chenet

Le samedi 16 mai 2009 à 18:20 +0200, Andreas Rottmann a écrit :
> Carl Chenet <chaica@ohmytux.com> writes:
> 
> > Package: wnpp
> > Severity: wishlist
> > Owner: Carl Chenet <chaica@ohmytux.com>
> >
> >
> > * Package name    : belier
> >   Version         : 0.7
> >   Upstream Author : Carl Chenet <chaica@ohmytux.com>
> > * URL             : http://www.ohmytux.com/belier
> > * License         : GPL
> >   Programming Lang: Python
> >   Description     : open a shell or execute a command on a remote computer using ssh through several intermediate machines
> >
> > Belier allows automated openings of a shell or command executions on
> > remote computers through ssh. The main feature is Belier's ability to
> > cross several computers before joining the final machine.
> >
> From the looks of it, this package has only French documentation, and
> even the long command-line switches are in French -- I find that,
> erm... strange. Also, the source is written in French (i.e. using french
> identifiers). IMO this is suboptimal, as the former restricts its
> potential user base, and the latter the potential contributor base.
> 
> Judging from the long description, I think that this program provides
> very useful functionality, but, speaking for myself, I probably won't
> use it because of the language issue (although I guess I could figure
> its interface out), and definitly wouldn't contribute to it, although
> I'm fluent in Python (but not in French).
> 
> [ Note that I'm not a native English speaker, but nevertheless wouldn't
>   even think about localizing a CLI, or the program source itself. I
>   would even think twice about contributing to software "written in
>   German", even though that's my native tongue. ].
> 
> Regards, Rotty