drift terminology

Jay Shaughnessy jshaughn at redhat.com
Tue Aug 16 13:29:30 UTC 2011



On 8/16/2011 9:13 AM, Robert Buck wrote:
>
> On 08/15/2011 09:44 PM, Alan Santos wrote:
>> On Aug 15, 2011, at 4:56 PM, Charles Crouch wrote:
>>> Harlan, Alan, everyone on the rhq-devel list,
>>>
>>> John Sanda just updated the drift wiki with some definitions:
>>> http://www.rhq-project.org/display/RHQ/Drift+Management#DriftManagement-Terminology
>> Great, thanks - this is helpful. One thought:  "Drift Configuration" is explained well enough, but the term seems overloaded with respect to 'configuration'.
>>
>> I'd been thinking of it as a definition rather than a configuration.  Unfortunately I don't have a good suggestion; 'Drift Definition' didn't seem right; 'Baseline Definition' didn't seem to cover it all as it also includes frequency of the check (right?). 'Snapshot Definition'?  I'm not sure.  WDYT?
> In the first line of the definition is a decent term, and it's
> consistent with similar software in industry: "rules". So Drift Rules
> may make sense.
>
> -Bob
I think the use of 'Configuration' is not overloaded, but just 
consistent with its use across RHQ.  It's defined in the plugin 
descriptor and presented in the UI just like other configurations.  I 
suggest keeping it as is.
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