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<div>I opened bug <a href="https://bugs.launchpad.net/openstack-manuals/+bug/1335423">https://bugs.launchpad.net/openstack-manuals/+bug/1335423</a></div>
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<span style="font-weight:bold">From: </span>Anne Gentle <<a href="mailto:anne@openstack.org">anne@openstack.org</a>><br>
<span style="font-weight:bold">Date: </span>Saturday, June 28, 2014 7:44 AM<br>
<span style="font-weight:bold">To: </span>Diane Fleming <<a href="mailto:diane.fleming@rackspace.com">diane.fleming@rackspace.com</a>><br>
<span style="font-weight:bold">Cc: </span>Roger Luethi <<a href="mailto:rl@patchworkscience.org">rl@patchworkscience.org</a>>, "<a href="mailto:openstack-docs@lists.openstack.org">openstack-docs@lists.openstack.org</a>" <<a href="mailto:openstack-docs@lists.openstack.org">openstack-docs@lists.openstack.org</a>><br>
<span style="font-weight:bold">Subject: </span>Re: [Openstack-docs] weighted vs. weighed<br>
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<div dir="ltr">Agreed... log a bug and correct the use to the statistical weighted.
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<div>I'm giggling a bit at the image of heavy cells and hosts.</div>
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<div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, Jun 28, 2014 at 7:00 AM, Diane Fleming <span dir="ltr">
<<a href="mailto:diane.fleming@rackspace.com" target="_blank">diane.fleming@rackspace.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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Never ask a woman how much she weights...<br>
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I agree - the terms should be -<br>
Weighting<br>
Weighted<br>
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Adding to the confusion is the use of passive voice in the books - like "devices are weighted by size" - that should be reworded to something like "the xxx weights devices by size."<br>
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> On Jun 28, 2014, at 12:40 AM, "Roger Luethi" <<a href="mailto:rl@patchworkscience.org">rl@patchworkscience.org</a>> wrote:<br>
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> A recent review made me wonder about how we are using weight in the<br>
> documentation. When OpenStack talks about weight, it doesn't mean mass<br>
> but a statistical property.<br>
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> Such properties, to the best of my knowledge (and a little web search),<br>
> are used when "weighting" the members of a class, when producing<br>
> a weighted average or a weighted index. But some of the OpenStack<br>
> documentation talks about "weighing".<br>
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> Here are some samples from nova docs:<br>
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> # During its work Filter Scheduler firstly makes dictionary of<br>
> # unfiltered hosts, then filters them using filter properties and<br>
> # finally chooses hosts for the requested number of instances (each<br>
> # time it chooses the most weighed host and appends it to the list of<br>
> # selected hosts).<br>
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> # If we speak about `filtering` and `weighting`, their work is quite<br>
> # flexible in the Filter Scheduler.<br>
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> In the openstack-manuals repo, I found examples that seem correct to me<br>
> ("Devices are weighted by size.") and others that are rather dubious<br>
> or clearly incorrect ("How the metrics are going to be weighed.",<br>
> "Hosts and cells are weighed based on the following options [...]").<br>
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> Unfortunately, the API docs are sometimes rather unhelpful, containing<br>
> explanations like this gem:<br>
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> # def weight_multiplier(self):<br>
> # """How weighted this weigher should be.<br>
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> Anyone else want to weigh in on this matter?<br>
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> Roger<br>
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