The "Reserve Workflow" [1] allows reservation of only systems which are
set to "Automated". However, one may want to reserve a system which is set
to "Manual" and the proposed RFE [2] this change aims to make such systems
available for reservation as well.
A concern is that system owners may think this makes their system available to
any arbitrary user. However, the system access policy rules still apply and
hence if a system is not be arbitrarily reserved, the appropriate
permissions can be used to implement that.
Under the hood, this feature will be using the recently merged
"force system provisioning" support [3].
Thoughts, comments?
[1]
https://beaker-project.org/docs/user-guide/provisioning.html#reserve-work...
[2]
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1093226
[3]
https://lists.fedorahosted.org/pipermail/beaker-devel/2014-May/000993.html
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Amit Saha
SED, Hosted & Shared Services
Red Hat, Inc.