[Nut-upsuser] On retiring some terminology

[Douglas Parsons]

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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