Several questions about roadmap

[Mark Shuttleworth]

On 10/30/2017 10:51 PM, Michael Iatrou wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 30, 2017 at 9:16 AM, Андрей Башлаков
> <a.bashlakov at corp.vk.com <mailto:a.bashlakov at corp.vk.com>> wrote:
>
>     Hi, all!
>
>
> Hello Andrei!
>  
>
>     We have several questions about MaaS roadmap:
>     1) Is there any plans to make role-based user management? Current
>     scheme with admins and users is very constrained. We would like to
>     see ability to add roles that can, for example, only commission
>     and run test on new machines but can’t acquire machines or do
>     anything else;
>

Yes, we do expect to have RBAC capabilities in future.

>  
>
>     2) Is there any plans to implement custom hooks for events, such
>     as change machine state or discovery new machines? We developing
>     internal product that actively using MaaS API and currently we
>     need to run several crawlers for detecting such changes.
>
>
> How often does the state of the machines change?
> How large is the pool of the managed machines?
> Any reason why the polling approach is not sufficient?

Polling won't scale very well :)

I think the idea of hooks is sensible. It's not on our roadmap, patches
or engineering engagements around that would be welcome.

Mark
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