[Maas-devel] Opinion needed on unset power types

[Julian Edwards]

On 21/01/14 23:52, Andres Rodriguez wrote:
> All,
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>     Pondering on what Jeff says though, should a node even get to the Ready
>     state without a power type?  Any chance we can require a power type at
>     the point of accepting a node?
> 
> 
> I personally believe that not allowing a machine to get to the Ready
> state without a power type is an inappropriate solution. I believe,

I agree.

> however, that the user should be warned that there's no power type and
> that whatever stage is to be done, the node should be powered manually.
> 
> On this note, it would also be interesting to add some kind of
> notification/status of the power state of the node if one set; that way,
> if none set, it means that the node will not be power managed and the
> user will have to do that manually.

And this is exactly what happens, in the code, right now.  ;)