[Maas-devel] Comments on the networks feature

[Raphaël Badin]

On 02/24/2014 11:26 AM, Gavin Panella wrote:
> On 24 February 2014 00:47, Julian Edwards <julian.edwards at canonical.com> wrote:
>> 1. http://imgur.com/ujbp22w
>>    This selection box at the bottom of "add network" is a bit crazy I'm
>> afraid - it won't scale at all.  I think what we need is a JS-based node
>> picker (noDe!) which once selected allows further selection of that
>> node's interface.  If this is going to take more time than we have
>> available this week I'd rather just fix the node edit page to add it
>> that way than have this selection box, don't you think?
>
> Let's remove this widget. Like Julian says, it's not going to work
> with more than about 10 nodes. Also, it's too easy to accidentally
> destroy things by inadvertently clicking in one of those selection
> boxes and saving. It's a bulk action masquerading as something much
> less. If something like this is essential, it could be modelled using
> checkboxes, rendered within a div of limited size that grows a
> scrollbar when it's too big. That would greatly reduce the effects of
> error. However, given the time we have before the upcoming release,
> just ditching it would be the best thing to do I think.

Let's explore the possibilities we have before we jump the gun here.  I 
wonder if there isn't an easy way to exploit the Django widget used to 
configure the permissions on the admin site: 
http://people.canonical.com/~rvb/permi_widget.png

I'll look into it today.