that's right. 'relax' defines the action —so explains what is happening.
Of course, 'escalate' defines why we are doing it -so would allow more flexibility in future for extra escalation policies (I can't think of any right now) > On 19 Mar 2015, at 16:48, Thomas Weise <[email protected]> wrote: > > We are escalating the placement process because we cannot get the resource > we are looking for by means of relaxing the locality constraint. > > On Thu, Mar 19, 2015 at 9:25 AM, Sumit Mohanty <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> In conjunction with placement, relax seems more appropriate. >> >> Also, this feature is alluding to relaxing placement constraints. >> ________________________________________ >> From: Steve Loughran <[email protected]> >> Sent: Thursday, March 19, 2015 9:20 AM >> To: [email protected] >> Subject: [DISCUSS] SLIDER-799 terminology: escalate vs relax >> >> I'm documenting the SLIDER-799 changes and its property names. >> >> This is our chance to get terminology right. >> >> Should I call the action of going from a specific host to "anywhere" one of >> >> [] Escalation >> [] Relaxation >> >> I've been using 'escalation', but think 'relaxation' may be better, we can >> have properties like 'yarn.placement.relax.time.seconds' >> >> Which do people prefer? >> >> Or does anyone have a better term? >>
