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keystone may have taken "domain", but it didn't take "dns-domain"


Dean Troyer <dtroyer at gmail.com> wrote on 02/12/2018 10:24:05 AM:
>
> On Mon, Feb 12, 2018 at 9:13 AM, Graham Hayes <gr at ham.ie> wrote:
> > OSC only predates Designate by 5 months ...
>
> My bad, I didn't check dates.
>
> > "Zone" was what we were recommend to use by the OSC devs at the time we
> > wrote our OSC plugin, and at the time we were also *not* supposed to
> > name space commands inside service parent (e.g. openstack zone create
vs
> > openstack dns zone create).
>
> Namespacing commands and naming options are totally separate things.
> It is likely I suggested --zone at the time, and in the context of DNS
> commands it is very clear.  Also, in the context of Compute commands,
> --zone meaning availability zone is also clear.
>
> > For command flags --dns-zone seems like a good idea - but having a
plain
> > --zone is confusing when we have a top level "zone" object in the CLI,
> > when the type of object that "--zone" refers to is different to
> > "openstack zone <action>"
>
> Again, if there is confusion, things should be more specifically named
> to remove the confusion.  Maybe allowing "zone" to be assumed to be a
> DNS zone was a mistake, I've made plenty of those in OSC already, so
> there is precedent, but it seemed reasonable at the time and we (OSC
> team) do not control what external plugins do.
>
> For example, I really resist using abbreviations in OSC, but in some
> places to not do so is to buck trends that any semi-experienced user
> in the field would expect.  The last discussion of this was last week
> regarding "MTU" in Network commands.
>
> These are not hard rules, but strong guidelines that can and should be
> interpreted in the context that they will be applied.  And in the end,
> the result should be one that is understandable, clear and even
> expected by the users.
>
> dt
>
> --
>
> Dean Troyer
> dtroyer at gmail.com
>
>
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