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?
>> 

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