#68 python-sardana: short description is unhelpful

[Frédéric PICCA]

Hello

I got a bug report from a Debian user explaining that the short description of sardana is not very helpfull.

I put here the description of the sardana package.

Description: sardana control system
SARDANA, is a TANGO based control system designed for instrument
control and data acquisition, mainly developed by CELLS Alba
Synchrotron Controls Section. SARDANA framework is designed to hide
the complexity and heterogeneity of the control system (some internal
control of a group of devices), while providing a wide, rich, and
extensible set of operations that a user may need.

Maybe it is time to agreed on a short and long description now that more than one institut is using sardana.

Cheers

[Carlos Pascual]

OK, here is a proposal:

Short:

Sardana is a Python-based SCADA for scientific installations

Long:

Sardana is a software package for Supervision, Control and Data Acquisition (SCADA) optimized for scientific installations. It is written in Python and based in the Tango library. The hardware control and data acquisition routines can be accessed via an IPython console and a generic graphical user interface (both of which are easily extensible by the user).

[Frédéric PICCA]

Hello

here a proposition of short description review by english nativs from the debian-l10n-english list in charge of this kind of requestes :)

Just tell me if this is ok for you

Description: instrument control and data acquisition system - library
Sardana is a Supervision, Control And Data Acquisition (SCADA) system for
scientific installations. It is written in Python and based on the TANGO
library. The hardware control and data acquisition routines can be
accessed via an IPython console and a generic graphical user interface
(both of which are easily extensible by the user).

[Carlos Pascual]

changed in release-jan14 and develop branches to:

Description: instrument control and data acquisition system
Sardana is a Supervision, Control And Data Acquisition (SCADA) system for
scientific installations. It is written in Python and based on the TANGO
library. The hardware control and data acquisition routines can be
accessed via an IPython console and a generic graphical user interface
(both of which are easily extensible by the user).