On Wed, Nov 10, 2010 at 07:29:45PM +1100, Justin Clift wrote: > Hi all, > > While writing up the descriptions for persistent vs transient > objects (domains, virtual networks, etc), I'm personally finding > the word "temporary" seems a better fit than "transient". > > Is there anything particularly wrong with using "temporary" in > this context instead? > > Thinking that if "temporary" is ok, I'll do a search-n-replace, > changing "transient" to "temporary" across docs (and any code). > > Bad idea? I prefer the existing terminology of transient+persistent & don't think changing it has any real benefit and the downside that since you can't change all existing content/files out in the wild, we'll get a mix of temporary vs transient forever more. Daniel -- |: Red Hat, Engineering, London -o- http://people.redhat.com/berrange/ :| |: http://libvirt.org -o- http://virt-manager.org -o- http://deltacloud.org :| |: http://autobuild.org -o- http://search.cpan.org/~danberr/ :| |: GnuPG: 7D3B9505 -o- F3C9 553F A1DA 4AC2 5648 23C1 B3DF F742 7D3B 9505 :| -- libvir-list mailing list libvir-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/libvir-list