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On 04/19/2018 09:15 AM, Matthew Booth wrote:
> We've had inconsistent naming of recreate/evacuate in Nova for a long
> time, and it will persist in a couple of places for a while more.
> However, I've proposed the following to rename 'recreate' to
> 'evacuate' everywhere with no rpc/api impact here:
> 
> https://review.openstack.org/560900
> 
> One of the things which is renamed is the driver 'supports_recreate'
> capability, which I've renamed to 'supports_evacuate'. The above
> change updates this for in-tree drivers, but as noted in review this
> would impact out-of-tree drivers. If this might affect you, please
> follow the above in case it merges.

I have to admit, Matt, I'm a bit confused by this. I was under the 
impression that we were trying to *remove* uses of the term "evacuate" 
as much as possible because that term is not adequately descriptive of 
the operation and terms like "recreate" were more descriptive?

Best,
-jay