diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 0e152d6..982fb25 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -46,7 +46,7 @@ Create a new incident using Hugo with a command like this:
hugo -s site new -k incidents incidents/oh-no-something-went-wrong.md
```
-Hugo will create a new Markdown file for you with title and date based on the file name and a few predefined settings in the header. To learn more about the different states and report, you can see more detailed examples in `site/archetypes/incidents.md`.
+Hugo will create a new Markdown file for you with title and date based on the file name and a few predefined settings in the header. To learn more about the different severities and report, you can see more detailed examples in `site/archetypes/incidents.md`.
After explaining the current situation in the incident, you can just push the file to GitHub. Netlify will deploy the indicent announcement for you in a matter of seconds.
diff --git a/site/archetypes/incidents.md b/site/archetypes/incidents.md
index 719b635..b15029b 100644
--- a/site/archetypes/incidents.md
+++ b/site/archetypes/incidents.md
@@ -5,16 +5,16 @@
# when running `hugo new incidents/new-incident.md`,
# so we don't have to specify them here.
-# state: represents the global state of
+# severity: represents the impact of
# your system due to the current incident.
-# This is the list of supported states:
+# This is the list of supported severities:
#
# - under-maintenance
# - degraded-performance
# - partial-outage
# - major-outage
#
-state = "degraded-performance"
+severity = "degraded-performance"
# affectedsystem: is a list of systems affected
# by the incident.
diff --git a/site/data/states.toml b/site/data/severity.toml
similarity index 100%
rename from site/data/states.toml
rename to site/data/severity.toml
diff --git a/site/layouts/partials/header.html b/site/layouts/partials/header.html
index 6da62f1..bd978a1 100644
--- a/site/layouts/partials/header.html
+++ b/site/layouts/partials/header.html
@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@
{{ $incidents := where .Site.Pages.ByDate.Reverse "Section" "incidents" }}
{{ $active := where $incidents "Params.resolved" "!=" true }}
-{{ $major := where $active "Params.state" "major-outage" }}
+{{ $major := where $active "Params.severity" "major-outage" }}
diff --git a/site/layouts/partials/incident.html b/site/layouts/partials/incident.html
index 2abe1d9..3879b84 100644
--- a/site/layouts/partials/incident.html
+++ b/site/layouts/partials/incident.html
@@ -6,9 +6,9 @@
{{- .Content -}}
- {{- $alert := index .Site.Data.states.alerts .Params.state -}}
+ {{- $alert := index .Site.Data.severity.alerts .Params.severity -}}
- {{ index .Site.Data.states.descriptions .Params.state }}
+ {{ index .Site.Data.severity.descriptions .Params.severity }}
diff --git a/site/layouts/partials/systems.html b/site/layouts/partials/systems.html
index 36ebffd..662c3a8 100644
--- a/site/layouts/partials/systems.html
+++ b/site/layouts/partials/systems.html
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
-{{ $okAlert := index .content.Site.Data.states.alerts "ok"}}
-{{ $okDesc := index .content.Site.Data.states.descriptions "ok" }}
+{{ $okAlert := index .content.Site.Data.severity.alerts "ok"}}
+{{ $okDesc := index .content.Site.Data.severity.descriptions "ok" }}
{{ with .content.Site.Params.systems }}
@@ -12,8 +12,8 @@
{{ if $.incidents }}
{{ range $.incidents }}
{{ if in .Params.affectedsystems $name }}
- {{ $alert := index .Site.Data.states.alerts .Params.state }}
- {{ $desc := index .Site.Data.states.descriptions .Params.state }}
+ {{ $alert := index .Site.Data.severity.alerts .Params.severity }}
+ {{ $desc := index .Site.Data.severity.descriptions .Params.severity }}
{{ partial "status-badge" (dict "alert" $alert "description" $desc) }}
{{ else }}
{{ partial "status-badge" (dict "alert" $okAlert "description" $okDesc) }}