[PKG-Openstack-devel] "Recycle" debconf translations for ironic?

[Thomas Goirand]

On 05/01/2015 08:21 AM, Christian PERRIER wrote:
> Quoting Christian PERRIER (bubulle at debian.org):
>> Hello fellow Openstack maintainers,
>>
>> I just noticed that two new packages of yours appeared in the archive,
>> both of them with familiar debconf templates.
>
>
> A similar question raises for "ironic" but, here, it seems that files
> from "neutron" have been re-used, which seems fine.
>
> However, for Ironic, two new strings that seem specific to that
> package appeared:
>
> Template: ironic/enabled_drivers
> Type: multiselect
> Default: pxe_ipmitool
> Choices: pxe_ipmitool, pxe_ipminative, pxe_ssh, pxe_seamicro, pxe_iboot, pxe_ilo, pxe_drac, pxe_snmp
> _Description: Please select a list of Ironic drivers for this conductor to enable:
>   It is possible to activate multiple drivers per Ironic conductor node to
>   manage deployment and power. It is not mandatory to use the same list of
>   activated drivers across all of your ironic-conductor nodes.
>
> My problem, when I started the translation of this specific template
> is the question that raised in my mind:
>
> "what the hell is a 'conductor'"? ;-)

The conductor is a middleware on which requests are injected. It sits on 
a machine running nova-compute-ironic and that's the bit which will do 
the actual work of starting / stopping computers (for example, using IPMI).

Does the above helps? Or is it hebrew to you?

Cheers,

Thomas Goirand (zigo)