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

[Justin B Rye]

Christian Perrier wrote:
> Last release of Nova includes:
> 
>   * Configures Neutron credentials through Debconf.
> 
> ....but the wording of the new templates doesn't fit the style of
> other templates.
> 
> The "funny" part is that these templates do have the following warning:
> 
> # These templates have been reviewed by the debian-l10n-english
> # team

Ah yes.  I remember it well.

[...]
> Reworded as:
> 
> (please note that I think something should be said about what the hell
> is the "my_ip directive" and users should be given a clue of what they
> should put there but I have no bloody idea myself)
> 
> Template: nova/my-ip
> Type: string
> _Description: Value for my_ip:
>  Please enter the IP address that will be set in the my_ip directive of nova.conf. 

It seems to mean "the IP address nova expects to have as an OpenStack
compute node" (I see HOWTOs advising not to let the machine get a
dynamic DHCP address).  All the examples use IPv4 addresses in private
ranges... oh, and apparently there's a default setting of
use_ipv6=False... so maybe we need to say something like:
   .
   This value will be the static address for this compute node, and
   must use IPv4 unless use_ipv6 is manually set to "True".
> 
> Template: nova/neutron_url
> Type: string
> Default: http://127.0.0.1:9696
> _Description: Neutron server URL:
>  Please enter the URL of the Neutron server.
> 
> Template: nova/neutron_admin_tenant_name
> Type: string
> Default: admin
> _Description: Neutron admin tenant name:
>  Nova needs to be able to communicate with Neutron through Keystone. Therefore
>  Nova needs to know the Neutron admin tenant, username and password.

Maybe that could be shortened a little, but it'll do.

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