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> Yeah. This is a double bladed axe but i'm leaning towards naming flavors
> consistently a bit more too. Here's an attempt at +/- summary:
>
>
> "node profile"
>
> + a bit more descriptive for a newcomer imho
>
> - CLI renaming/reimplementing mentioned before
>
> - inconsistency dangers lurking in the deep - e.g. if an error message
> bubbles up from Nova all the way to the user, it might mention flavors,
> and if we talk 99% of time about node profiles, then user will not know
> what is meant in the error message. I'm a bit worried that we'll keep
> hitting things like this in the long run.

While I agree with all of your points, this is the one that resonates 
with me the most. We won't be able to be 100% consistent with a rename 
(exceptions are a great example). It's already irritating to the user to 
have to see an error, having to then see it in terms they aren't 
familiar with is an added headache.

> - developers still often call them "flavors", because that's what Nova
> calls them
>
>
> "flavor"
>
> + fits with the rest, does not cause communication or development problems
>
> - not so descriptive (but i agree with you - OpenStack admins will
> already be familiar what "flavor" means in the overcloud, and i think
> they'd be able to infer what it means in the undercloud)
>
>
> I'm CCing Jarda as this affects his work quite a lot and i think he'll
> have some insight+opinion (he's on PTO now so it might take some time
> before he gets to this).
>
>>
>>
>>
>> One other thing, I've looked at my own examples so far, so I didn't
>> really think about this but seeing it written down, I've realised the
>> way we specify the roles in the Tuskar CLI really bugs me.
>>
>>       --roles 1=1 \
>>       --roles 2=1
>>
>> I know what this means, but even reading it now I think: One equals
>> one? Two equals one? What? I think we should probably change the arg
>> name and also refer to roles by name.
>>
>>       --role-count compute=10
>>
>> and a shorter option
>>
>>       -R compute=10
>
> Yeah this is https://bugs.launchpad.net/tuskar/+bug/1281051
>
> I agree with you on the solution (rename long option, support lookup by
> names, add a short option).
>
>
> Thanks
>
> Jirka
>
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