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On 04/19/2018 12:27 PM, Matt Riedemann wrote:
> On 4/19/2018 11:06 AM, Matthew Booth wrote:
>> I'm ambivalent, tbh, but I think it's better to pick one. I thought
>> we'd picked 'evacuate' based on the TODOs from Matt R:
>>
>> http://git.openstack.org/cgit/openstack/nova/tree/nova/compute/manager.py#n2985 
>>
>> http://git.openstack.org/cgit/openstack/nova/tree/nova/compute/manager.py#n3093 
>>
>>
>> Incidentally, this isn't at all core to what I'm working on, but I'm
>> about to start poking it and thought I'd tidy up as I go (as is my
>> wont). If there's discussion to be had I don't mind dropping this and
>> moving on.
> 
> For reference, I started this rolling ball:
> 
> https://review.openstack.org/#/c/508190/
> 
> The internal 'recreate' argument to rebuild was always a thorn in my 
> side so I renamed it to evacuate because that's what the operation is 
> called in the API, how it shows up in bug reports, and how we talk about 
> it in IRC. We don't talk about the "recreate" operation, we talk about 
> evacuate.
> 
> Completely re-doing the end-user API experience with evacuate and 
> rebuild including internal plumbing changes is orthogonal to this 
> cleanup IMO because we can do the cleanup now to avoid existing 
> maintainer confusion rather than hold it up for something that no one is 
> working on.

I was only asking a question. I wasn't trying to hold anything up.

-jay