[Openstack-devel] Bug#737819: Bug#737819: Bug#737819: nova: Newly introduced templates should get a review by debian-l10n-english

[Justin B Rye]

Thomas Goirand wrote:
> Justin B Rye wrote:
>> So "Value for my-ip" *must* be inside a private IPv4 range?  And we're
>> also taking it for granted that it needs to be a unique value on the
>> same LAN as its neighbours!  So how about something like this:
>> 
>>   Template: nova/my-ip
>>   Type: string
>>   _Description: Node IP address:
>>    Please enter the IP address for this node on the private network
>>    being used locally by OpenStack.
>>    .   
>>    This value will be stored in the my_ip directive of nova.conf.
> 
> Hi,
> 
> "on the private network" should be changed by "on the management
> network", because there's also a virtual machine network which connects
> all compute nodes, and the network gateway (eg: neutron-server).
>
> "used locally by OpenStack" isn't appropriate either, IMO. It's really
> used by nova, and not by the neutron agent that does the networking, and
> which would be setup on the same machine, for example.

Okay, we're gradually getting there... oh, and now this diagram's
beginning to make sense:
http://docs.openstack.org/admin-guide-cloud/content/figures/9/a/common/figures/Neutron-PhysNet-Diagram.png

We probably can't safely refer to the value of my_ip as just the "node
IP address".  And eliminating the word "private" would also lose the
only hint that it has to be in an RFC1918-style private address range.
But how about:

   Template: nova/my-ip
   Type: string
   _Description: IP address on Nova management network:
    Please enter the IP address for this physical node on the private
    network being used for OpenStack Compute management.
    .   
    This value will be stored in the my_ip directive of nova.conf.

-- 
JBR	with qualifications in linguistics, experience as a Debian
	sysadmin, and probably no clue about this particular package