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

Andreas Jaeger aj at suse.com
Tue Jul 21 13:57:57 UTC 2015


On 07/21/2015 03:38 PM, Anne Gentle wrote:
>
>
> On Tue, Jul 21, 2015 at 8:25 AM, Matt Kassawara <mkassawara at gmail.com
> <mailto: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.

I find both via google in dictonaries like:
http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/weighter
http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/weigher

But that does not help me much either ;/

Andreas

> Anne
>
>     On Tue, Jul 21, 2015 at 12:34 AM, Atsushi SAKAI
>     <sakaia at jp.fujitsu.com <mailto: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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