Change on-premise to on-premises (or on-prem) for disambiguation

[wmcdonald404]

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What needs fixing?

There are 102 references to 'on-premise' in the documentation codebase.

wmcdonald@fedora:~/repos/personal/openshift-docs$ grep --exclude-dir=.git/ -or on-premise . | wc -l
102

These entries should ideally read 'on-premises', or the shorter form 'on-prem'.

Compare https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/premises vs. https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/premise

Further discussion:

https://collectivecontent.agency/2018/04/19/should-i-say-on-premise-or-on-premises-it/
https://www.adamfowlerit.com/2017/04/premise-vs-premises-cares/

I'll happily submit a PR but just wanted to know if the changes are welcome before doing the work.

[apinnick]

Red Hat Supplementary Style Guide, on-premise, says to this term with caution:

Substitute "on-site" or "in-house" for "on-premise" whenever possible. Although "on-premises" is grammatically correct, "on-premise" is preferred by the industry and the Red Hat Cloud business unit. Capitalize "on-premise" only when using it as part of the name of the Red Hat product "Red Hat Storage Server for On-premise". For Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform, on-premise is a collective term for grouping the bare-metal, VMware vSphere, Nutanix, and Red Hat OpenStack Platform (RHOSP) platforms, so you can use the term in this context.

Incorrect forms: on premise, on-premises, on-prem

You could open an issue in the RHSSG repo.

[mburke5678]

@wmcdonald404 Thanks for the thought. However, according to the Red Hat supplementary style guide for product documentation (probably internal-only)

Although "on-premises" is grammatically correct, "on-premise" is preferred by the industry and the Red Hat Cloud business unit.

We should probably switch the 33 cases of "on-premises" to "on-premise" instead!

[wmcdonald404]

Thanks @mburke5678. I traced the thread of reasoning through from the RHSSG style guide, to the IBM style guide... at which point I decided to cut my losses.

I think that the IBM guide is wrong and the discussion and subsequent justification made little sense when I RTFMed a month back, but I'm not sure I have the patience of pedantry to fight that good fight.

Premise != premises.

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[mburke5678]

@kalexand-rh Any thoughts on how to move on this?

TL/DR
RH supplementary style guide says OCP docs should use "on-premise" .
ISG says to not use "on-premise," but use "on-premises" or "on-prem" instead.

A change from "on-premises" to "on-premise" would be fairly trivial (Atom search shows 20 results in 20 files). Just not sure which style guide we should use when there is a direct contradiction.

[kalexand-rh]

The RH supplementary style guide trumps the ISG.

[TinyExplosions]

Shouldn’t the rules of grammar and correct English trump a style guide?

[mburke5678]

@TinyExplosions The style guide actually addresses the grammar issue:

Although "on-premises" is grammatically correct, "on-premise" is preferred by the industry and the Red Hat Cloud business unit.

This is a remarkably contentious issues, based on my quick internet searches!