config/9107: the term 'ballpark' used in the config files is an americanism, I believe

[David Welton <da...@apache.org>]

>Number:         9107
>Category:       config
>Synopsis:       the term 'ballpark' used in the config files is an americanism, I believe
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       non-critical
>Priority:       medium
>Responsible:    apache
>State:          open
>Quarter:        
>Keywords:       
>Date-Required:
>Class:          doc-bug
>Submitter-Id:   apache
>Arrival-Date:   Thu Dec 13 04:50:00 PST 2001
>Closed-Date:
>Last-Modified:
>Originator:     davidw@apache.org
>Release:        1.3.X
>Organization:
apache
>Environment:
Linux ashland 2.4.16 #8 Thu Dec 6 16:01:50 CET 2001 ppc unknown

Debian GNU/Linux

>Description:
While explaining the Apache config files to someone I'm doing consulting for, we ran across:

# Number of servers to start --- should be a reasonable ballpark figure.

and, even though he speaks English reasonably well (I live in Italy), he was confused by the term 'ballpark'.  Indeed, as far as I know, it's an americanism.   Using the 'dict' program distributed with my Linux distribution, I was infact not able to find the meaning of the word as used above.  
>How-To-Repeat:
It's in the documentation...
>Fix:
A more appropriate phrase might be "should be a reasonable estimate" or something of that ilk.
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