> On Feb 3, 2016, at 11:56 AM, Tim Bannister <is...@c8h10n4o2.org.uk> wrote: > > On 3 February 2016 14:21:58 GMT, Jim Jagielski <j...@jagunet.com> wrote: > >> STOPPED: Never sent proxy traffic. Never health-checked. Never >> re-tried. Never automatically re-enabled. >> >> DISABLED: Never sent proxy traffic. Is health-checked. Retried. >> Could be automatically re-enabled. >> > > Some users could actually expect to see health checks sent to STOPPED workers > but not to a DISABLED worker. > > I'm trying to think like a newbieish webmaster: if they declare a balancer > member +D they are saying that it is not in use: maybe the host is not set up > yet, maybe it no longer provides that service. > STOPPED comes over as saying “temporarily do not use” whereas DISABLED feels > like “administratively disabled”, “no longer in service”, that kind of. > > I'd say this doesn't match how the balancer-manager portrays things. > Whichever interpretation wins out is going to be worth documenting (I think?) > to avoid that risk of confusion. >
Yeah, agreed. I've starting documenting the diff...
