Standing feature freeze exception for maas in Precise

[Francis J. Lacoste]

Hi,

I'd like a standing feature freeze exception for the maas package until the end of the Precise cycle. The maas package contains the successor to the Orchestra provisioning system for Precise. Approval of uploads to the package should cause minimal disruption for users as:

 * It's only installed optionally.
 * It contains a comprehensive unit tests test suite. Upstream developers use TDD.
 * A CI integration system is being setup to bless every new version of the package for integration in Ubuntu.

Missing feature that are going to land over the coming month:

 * Allow manual intervention during a node commissioning (for firmware upgrade)
 * Dashboard to visualize the cluster state
 * Commission a node using PXE boot
 * Configure the use of local Ubuntu mirrors
 * Set access to the node using SSH keys (instead of well-known username/password)

[Dave Walker (davewalker)]

Thanks for the report.

Having had familiarity with this spec, and the work that has gone into it.. I am approving, but also happy to be the point of contact on the release team to guide this to release.

Thanks.

[Scott Kitterman (kitterman)]

This should have a defined end date other than release. How about up to Beta 2
freeze?

[Francis J. Lacoste (flacoste)]

Yes, Beta 2 freeze is the ultimate deadline for us. So it's not a problem to make that explicit.

[Stefano Rivera (stefanor)]

Beta 2 is out. Closing the bug.