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Terminology policy

We prefer British English over American English. For example, we use cancelled instead of canceled.

Should be applied for naming buttons, separate pages of the process and in list of actions.

Add / Remove

Should be used when an action of creating/adding or deleting/removing is applied to:

  • Organizations
  • Projects
  • Providers
  • VMs
  • Applications
  • SLA
  • SSH key
  • Team members

Import / Unlink

Should be used when an action of importing or unlinking / deleting a record without undeploying is applied to:

  • VMs

Please use "synchronise" instead of "pull" in action title.

Units of measurement

Component units (measured_unit) are written in the singular. They appear mainly in rate expressions — "Cost: EUR 4.50 per core", "EUR 0.02 per GB", "EUR 1.20 per hour" — and in a "Unit" column, both of which read as singular.

  • Write core, hour, node hour, GPU hour, seat.
  • Not cores, hours, node hours, units.

Symbols and abbreviations keep their standard form and are never pluralised: GB, TB, vCPU, GB-hour.

Where a display needs a plural ("120 hours used"), pluralise in the copy around the value — never by storing a plural unit.