Comment 1 for bug 1886866

There actually is no enlisting status in MAAS. Its a term we use to describe a machine that is added to MAAS by being powered on and automatically network booted. Originally a machine being enlisted would be added as a new machine. A few years ago I added a feature to commission a machine when being enlisted. During discussion of this feature it was agreed that it should go through the normal commissioning process and then revert back to a new state to force an administrator to accept it.

Creating a new status for enlistment would require a bit of backend work as the code looks for the commissioning status and uses "commissioning" in logging and other areas. We may want to discuss a better way to tell users the machine is being enlisted without creating a new status.