[Openstack-docs] use of "weighter"

Andreas Jaeger aj at suse.com
Fri Sep 5 14:00:00 UTC 2014


On 09/05/2014 03:38 PM, Anne Gentle wrote:
> Hi all, Looking at https://review.openstack.org/#/c/113890 and
> https://review.openstack.org/#/c/118673/ you can see there's difficulty
> documenting an option called scheduler_default_weighters and I'm seeking
> help from the cinder team with this message.
> 
> As far as I can tell, weighters is not a word. Weigh is the verb, weight
> is the noun, and much to my surprise, weighers as a noun is a correct use.
> 
> So I'm asking John if it's possible to rename
> scheduler_default_weighters to scheduler_default_weighers (or
> scheduler_default_weights) -- not to bikeshed but because it's tough to
> document the way it is now and causing confusion.
> 
> Any thoughts on how difficult that would be? The patches above show the
> awkwardness we're trying to smooth out.

We can leave the old option in as deprecated option and add the new name
as new option, should be rather easy AFAIU,

Andreas
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