Model statuses

[Andrew Wilkins]

On Wed, Apr 13, 2016 at 7:43 PM Mark Shuttleworth <mark at ubuntu.com> wrote:

>
> The guidance is that we want it to be VERY clear to people, when someone
> quotes just a status, what they are talking about. There is a very
> different situation in progress when a unit state is being described
> than the state of the whole application. Imagine a telephone
> conversation between two stressed people; you want the word they use,
> even without much context, to tell as much as possible to the other
> person about what they are dealing with.
>
> In this case, I don't think there is as much risk of confusion between
> the state of the model and the state of the application, as there is
> between app and unit. For that reason, I think it's "OK" but not great
> to use the same terms for model and application.
>

Thanks for the feedback. I think I see where this is coming from now, with
juju/agent vs. workload status. I'll go ahead with what I've proposed for
2.0.0rc1 (or whatever we're calling it). I doubt there will be any
confusion, but we'll have some time to test it out and rework it as
necessary.

Cheers,
Andrew
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