I noted Chris Lalancette's email on Oct 7 saying there are only three states defined. However, many of the drivers still reference "shutting_down". I have a suggestion. Would it be possible to include in the source code of each file the date on which it was last modified? That would be very helpful finding why something is missing or present.
[I could be wrong on this. I downloaded the source code Oct 22, 2010 from git clone git://git.apache.org/deltacloud.git core] Also, on the "states". What is the current thinking? Specifically, :pending is so vague that it will always beg for more information. Pending what? If I am writing software to talk to Deltacloud and my instance is "pending" what can I extract from that information? I'm thinking that :booting, :shutting, :suspending [or :pausing] and maybe even :snapshotting give much more information to the user than :pending. Ed Bradford
