On 9/3/13 12:54 AM, SHIMA Keiichi wrote:
> On 2013/08/30, at 0:06, Joe Marcus Clarke <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
>> This reminds me of another problem I had initially noticed, but forgot
>> to raise.  That is, the use of the state name to define the state.  I
>> think what you have written here is good, but is there another way to
>> say "blocked" that would define it more clearly?
>>
>> I have the same comment for just about all states.  Their definition
>> contains the state name.  If those descriptions were more descriptive,
>> it might short-circuit emails like this in the future.
> 
> I agree that we need more explanation on the text describing the states.
> 
> By the way, VirtualMachineAdminState has more detailed explanation, which is 
> nice :)  Maybe we should do the similar work for VirtualMachineOperState too?

Yes, AdminState is much better, but still has one issue.  The
shutdown(4) state is described as "...should be taken shuttingdown."  I
don't think think this is right :-).

Joe

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> Keiichi SHIMA (島 慶一)
> WIDE project <[email protected]>
> Research Laboratory, IIJ Innovation Institute, Inc <[email protected]>
> 
> 
> 
> On 2013/08/30, at 0:06, Joe Marcus Clarke <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
>> On 8/26/13 6:59 AM, Juergen Schoenwaelder wrote:
>>> Would this clarification help:
>>>
>>>             blocked(5)     The virtual machine is currently blocked
>>>                         waiting for example for some action of 
>>>                            the hypervisor to finish.
>>
>> This reminds me of another problem I had initially noticed, but forgot
>> to raise.  That is, the use of the state name to define the state.  I
>> think what you have written here is good, but is there another way to
>> say "blocked" that would define it more clearly?
>>
>> I have the same comment for just about all states.  Their definition
>> contains the state name.  If those descriptions were more descriptive,
>> it might short-circuit emails like this in the future.
>>
>> Joe
>>
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