[OpenStack-docs] Question about which keyword should use?(weigher/weighter)

Matt Kassawara mkassawara at gmail.com
Tue Jul 21 13:54:54 UTC 2015


I think we can avoid this issue with sentence structure.

On Tue, Jul 21, 2015 at 7:38 AM, Anne Gentle <annegentle at justwriteclick.com>
wrote:

>
>
> On Tue, Jul 21, 2015 at 8:25 AM, Matt Kassawara <mkassawara at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> We should call these "weight" or "weights" to agree with every other
>> technical thing that uses this concept.
>>
>>
> It's the verb form that always gets crazy.
>
> Verb: weigh
> Noun: weight
>
> Something that weighs: scale
>
> See what I mean? There's no such thing as a weigher or weighter except in
> code and options in OpenStack.
>
> Anne
>
>
>> On Tue, Jul 21, 2015 at 12:34 AM, Atsushi SAKAI <sakaia at jp.fujitsu.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Hello
>>>
>>> I am looking around following document and find same two keywords are
>>> used on the document.
>>> Which word (weigher/weighter) is correct for this case?
>>>
>>> for example
>>>   GoodnessWeigher
>>>   VolumeNumberWeigher scheduler_default_weighters
>>>
>>> OpenStack Cloud Administrator Guide
>>> http://docs.openstack.org/draft/admin-guide-cloud-rst/
>>>
>>> Thanks
>>> Atsushi SAKAI
>>>
>>>
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> Anne Gentle
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