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On 11/08/2013 06:57 PM, Shaun McCance wrote:
> Reviewing some patches, I realize we're not all on the same page when it
> comes to whether to put hostnames in replaceable. That is, which one of
> these do we write?
> 
> qpid_hostname=controller
> 
> qpid_hostname=<replaceable>controller</replaceable>
> 
> In the latter case, you're making it clear that it can be replaced with
> something different, if you're doing things differently. In the former,
> replaceable is reserved for things that must be replaced by the user,
> like passwords or randomly generated IDs.
> 
> I tend to lean toward only using replaceable when we expect the user
> must replace the text, so that it stands out in the reader's mind. After
> all, this is OpenStack, so everything *could* conceivably be changed. We
> don't want to wrap the whole book in one big replaceable. :)


Yeah, I added some more as part of a review comment. We had them always
in a few places.

I tend to agree that controller shouldn't be a replaceable.

Btw. please remember to document such decisions at:

https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/Documentation/Conventions#Install_Guide

Andreas
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