[Nut-upsuser] On retiring some terminology

[Douglas Parsons]

Initiator in place of manager also works. So initiator/subscriber.

But manager will likely be better recieved.

On Fri, Mar 12, 2021, 9:14 PM Rusty Bower <rusty at rustybower.com> wrote:

> Manager/subscriber seems most accurate
>
> Sent from my iPhone
>
> On Mar 12, 2021, at 20:13, Douglas Parsons <doug at parsonsemail.com> wrote:
>
> 
> In place of secondary how about subscriber? It would be accurate to the
> role.
>
> On Fri, Mar 12, 2021, 8:25 PM Dan Langille via Nut-upsuser <
> nut-upsuser at alioth-lists.debian.net> wrote:
>
>> On Fri, Mar 12, 2021, at 8:15 PM, Rusty Bower wrote:
>>
>> I’m not a fan of secondary when there can be multiple secondaries
>>
>>
>> A secondary is a secondary. There can be multiple secondaries.
>>
>>
>> Sent from my iPhone
>>
>> On Mar 12, 2021, at 18:46, Dan Langille via Nut-upsuser <
>> nut-upsuser at alioth-lists.debian.net> wrote:
>>
>> 
>> On Fri, Mar 12, 2021, at 6:52 PM, Jim Klimov via Nut-upsuser wrote:
>>
>> Hello fellow NUTs :)
>>
>>   Some time ago an issue
>> https://github.com/networkupstools/nut/issues/840 was raised, and with
>> current work underway to publish a standard on NUT protocol it became more
>> urgent - to retire the master/slave terminology from NUT configuration and
>> documentation.
>>
>>   I looked around for suitable synonyms, and for our primary use-case
>> with upsmon roles - where it either manages an UPS by direct link and tells
>> others to shut down ASAP, or is one of such shutdown agents being told what
>> to do, words "manager" and "subordinate" seem neutral enough and reflective
>> of the activities and relationship of these actors.
>>
>>   Would native speakers or others better versed in the current dictionary
>> of acceptable words please confirm if this choice is okay, or suggest
>> better alternatives?
>>
>>
>> What about primary and secondary?
>> --
>>   Dan Langille
>>   dan at langille.org
>>
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