On Fri, Mar 12, 2021, at 8:15 PM, Rusty Bower wrote:
> I’m not a fan of secondary when there can be multiple secondaries 

A secondary is a secondary. There can be multiple secondaries.

> 
> Sent from my iPhone
> 
>> On Mar 12, 2021, at 18:46, Dan Langille via Nut-upsuser 
>> <[email protected]> wrote:
>> 
>> On Fri, Mar 12, 2021, at 6:52 PM, Jim Klimov via Nut-upsuser wrote:
>>> Hello fellow NUTs :)
>>> 
>>>   Some time ago an issue https://github.com/networkupstools/nut/issues/840 
>>> was raised, and with current work underway to publish a standard on NUT 
>>> protocol it became more urgent - to retire the master/slave terminology 
>>> from NUT configuration and documentation.
>>> 
>>>   I looked around for suitable synonyms, and for our primary use-case with 
>>> upsmon roles - where it either manages an UPS by direct link and tells 
>>> others to shut down ASAP, or is one of such shutdown agents being told what 
>>> to do, words "manager" and "subordinate" seem neutral enough and reflective 
>>> of the activities and relationship of these actors.
>>> 
>>>   Would native speakers or others better versed in the current dictionary 
>>> of acceptable words please confirm if this choice is okay, or suggest 
>>> better alternatives?
>> 
>> What about primary and secondary?
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