[Openstack-devel] Bug#708660: [LCFC] templates://keystone/{keystone.templates}

[Thomas Goirand]

On 06/14/2013 02:01 PM, Christian PERRIER wrote:
> Quoting Justin B Rye (justin.byam.rye at gmail.com):
> 
>>> Template: keystone/admin-tenant-name
>> [...]
>>> Please enter the name of the administrative tenant (project).
>>
>> The bit in parentheses is explaining the word "tenant" by offering the
>> equivalent jargon used in a previous system.  This makes me wonder
>> whether perhaps we should say something like:
>>
>>   Please enter the name of the administrative "tenant" (formerly known
>>   as a "project").
>>
>> But I haven't actually put that in my revised patch.  Meanwhile I've
>> noticed that Quantum has similar templates phrased differently...
> 
> Would be interesting to have Thomas' input about this. Thomas?
> (CC'ed explicitly just in case)

I think that someone who doesn't know what a tenant is in OpenStack
should either give-up using it or read some more documentation. So I'd
be fine with simply removing "(project)".

Just a bit of background here. In OpenStack, a "tenant" is an entity
that contains one or more username/password couples. It's typically the
tenant that will be used for billing. Having more than one
username/password is very helpful in larger organization.

In OpenStack, a tenant is a synonym of a project. I don't think it was a
rename, I saw both. For example, the OpenStack dashboard (Horizon) shows
"projects" and not "tenants" in the admin interface:
http://www.openstack.org/themes/openstack/images/essex/project-users.jpg

Or this one too:
http://docs.openstack.org/trunk/openstack-compute/admin/content/figures/1/figures/horizon-screenshot.jpg

I'm cc-ing the OpenStack list just in case I'm wrong. :)

Thomas