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["Francis J. Lacoste" <francis.lacoste@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 12-05-25 06:13 AM, Dan Harrop-Griffiths wrote:
> On 23 May 2012 16:23, Francis J. Lacoste <francis.lacoste@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>>
>> On 12-05-23 10:12 AM, Dan Harrop-Griffiths wrote:
>>> On 23 May 2012 16:03, Francis J. Lacoste <francis.lacoste@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On 12-05-22 01:08 PM, Matthew Revell wrote:
>>>>>>> There is an Avahi-shaped hole in the documentation at the moment that
>>>>>>> is going to cause problems for anyone who doesn't own their own
>>>>>>> network, so hopefully we can get this sorted!
>>>>> As it's untested, hard to test and not in-line with our longer term
>>>>> aims for MAAS, I suggest we consider the Avahi boot story an
>>>>> unofficial feature for now. So, I'd suggest removing mention of it
>>>>> from the docs and keeping the guide itself on hold until we decide
>>>>> either way.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> One problem with this is the UI shipped in Precise links to AvahiBoot
>>>> wiki page on all installed node. It's presented as instructions that
>>>> need to happen to ensure that the nodes boot succesfully (as the main
>>>> story for 12.04 was supposed to be this seed cloud over Avahi story).
>>>>
>>>> So we should put an explanation about this now "unsupported feature" on
>>>> that page.
>>>>
>>> Is it possible to remove the text that mentions Avahi in the UI?
>>
>> It is, but not retro-actively in already deployed/installed places.
>>
> I've been thinking about this - even if we can't change any MAASs that
> are out there right now, I think it'd be a good step to alter the
> help-text that says:
> 
> "You can boot this node using Avahi enabled boot media or an
> adequately configured dhcp server, see
> https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ServerTeam/MAAS/AvahiBoot for details."
> 
> ...for any new instances of MAAS. One of the most annoying things for
> a user is to be sent to a page that offers to help, only to find out
> that there is no help there (that there is currently no Avahi option).
> 
> Is it possible to make this change, or is it too deeply rooted in the
> current system?

Changing the help text in the code is trivial. Distributing that to
users is more complex, but could be done in a SRU. What would you change
it to? And it's probably much simpler to make AvahiBoot a helpful page :-)

-- 
Francis J. Lacoste
francis.lacoste@xxxxxxxxxxxxx

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