[Bug 1287224] Re: pronounceable machine names in MAAS

[Gavin Panella]

$ sdw=(...)  # The "Seven Dirty Words"
$ egrep -i "(${sdw[0]}|${sdw[1]}|...)" /usr/share/dict/american-english | wc -l
38

I assume we'd want to use a wordlist without profanity?

There are also only 72945 words without punctuation in that list, but
MAAS has bigger ambitions! :)

To solve both these problems we could select, say, 500 words that are
safe and memorable along with a numeric suffix.

Another option is to use subdomains for clusters. Clusters are only
meant to contain a few hundred machines, so a 500-long word list would
probably suffice if it were combined with a subdomain (selected from
another word list?).

** Summary changed:

- pronounceable machine names in MAAS
+ MAAS does not have pronounceable machine names

** Also affects: maas
   Importance: Undecided
       Status: New

** Changed in: maas
       Status: New => Triaged

** Changed in: maas
   Importance: Undecided => Wishlist

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  MAAS does not have pronounceable machine names

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