MAAS node naming scheme is inappropriate

[Dean Henrichsmeyer]

The current MAAS node naming scheme is inappropriate. "Safe" words no longer become "safe" when you combine them. It would be good to address this before we end up being embarrassed at the most inappropriate time.

[Gavin Panella (allenap)]

Noted, but I don't think we should assign engineering resources to making less perturbed those who feel uncomfortable when a non-sentient machine randomly concatenates two words.

[Julian Edwards (julian-edwards)]

I raised this point when the scheme was first mooted. I am of the same
opinion as Gavin at this time.

The only reasonable way of avoiding this is to revert to the old 5-letter
scheme. Or, people could just stop taking offence :)

[Christian Reis (kiko)]

Let's see if we can fix this by just cutting the number of nouns dramatically down to a very small, safe set.

[Gavin Panella (allenap)]

Dustin has rustled up an alternative:
  http://blog.dustinkirkland.com/2015/01/introducing-petname-libraries-for.html

He has said, via IRC:

  I think the new algorithm in these generally usable libraries avoids
  [offensive names]. The libraries, python-petname and python3-petname,
  have landed in Vivid, though, that wouldn't help us for trusty-updates.

[Dustin Kirkland  (kirkland)]

What I would recommend, for the Trusty SRU, would be to just include a copy of either python-petname or the petname shell script, in the MAAS SRU source code to be used.

[Carla Berkers (carlaberkers)]

Oily boys?

[Jonathan Davies (jpds)]

The Internets have picked up on this:

- https://i.imgur.com/fsX0hJa.png

[Andres Rodriguez (andreserl)]

I believe that by using petname, ew've address this issue. I'm marking this as Fix Committed.