Re: Role States

[Miloslav Trmač]

2014-06-03 17:30 GMT+02:00 Thomas Woerner <twoerner(a)redhat.com&gt;:

>  What are the needed and wanted role states?
>
>  It was requested to have integer states. A bit field maybe? Questions and
>  suggestions welcome.
>  
I'd much rather see a state transition diagram (expecting that many of the
N×N theoretical state transitions wouldn’t actually be possible).

Please add roles with a description:
>  Role              | Description
>  ------------------+-----------------------------------------
>  -----------------------
>  enabled           | Role will be started automatically at next boot
>  configured        | Configuration has been added
>  deployed          | Role is deployed
>  
I’d rather collapse these two: what does “deploy” of an unconfigured role
even mean, and how can I configure something that hasn‘t been deployed?

activation_failed | Activation (with systemd) failed
>  
Do we need to be *that* specific?  Perhaps just “failed”
meaning
“successfully deployed but not working”?

Is there a need for time stamps for these states?
>  
Not timestamps, no.  But there is a need to have an
user-accessible log,
and having it machine-parsable would be even better.
    Mirek