Justin Clark-Casey wrote:
> Frank Nichols wrote:
>> There is a member in RegionProfileData (regionOnline) which is currently 
>> not used and does not exist in the region db table. I would like to add 
>> it to the region table as an enum and not a boolean. Currently the code 
>> assumes a region that has an entry in the region table is online (as far 
>> as I have figured out...) With this field in place we can impliment the 
>> requested feature of reserving regions as well as having regions online 
>> but not available for logins. I suggest the following enums:
>>
>> RESERVED
>> OFFLINE
>> ONLINE
>>
>> at least for starters.
>>
>>
>> Before submitting a patch to support this, i wanted to get some 
>> direction and comments from the core developers and architects.
> 
> I think the people who could contribute most to this discussion are those who 
> are actively running grids, a group that 
> will consist of both some core developers but also of other core developers.
> 
> On the surface a RESERVED state doesn't seem unreasonable to me.
> 
> Perhaps the nicest thing to do would be to make such code modular so that 
> people are free to implement different 
> strategies for grid organization.

This sounds sensible to me.  I think it should end up as State instead
of regionOnline, so we can think of it in these more generic ways.

        -Sean

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