Comment 7 for bug 1705924

Yeah, the disambiguation aspect also come into the decision to rename the "pending" unit status, now that you mention it.

To me, "holding" doesn't really convey much unless you know Juju. How about "booting"? As in the machine which the unit will run is "booting". That term is analogous to bare metal so I would expect most folks would intuitively be able to reason about what it means?