Public bug reported: I understand that sabdfl specifically requested 5-character machine names in MAAS (rather than MAC or IP based names like AWS).
I'd like to make an additional request from a usability perspective... Can we please make the MAAS machine names pronounceable? It's really, really difficult to talk about machines in a cluster when the name is "kslnw" or "xpxrqm". Here's a suggestion: $ sudo apt-get install wamerican $ shuf -n 1 /usr/share/dict/american-english | sed 's/[^a-zA-Z]//g' That gives much more readable, though still random, machine names. That dictionary has 100K words in it. There's also wbritish, wcanadian. See the scowl source package or http://wordlist.sourceforge.net/ for more information. ** Affects: maas (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided Status: New ** Tags: micro-cluster ** Tags added: micro-cluster -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Server Team, which is subscribed to maas in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1287224 Title: pronounceable machine names in MAAS To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/maas/+bug/1287224/+subscriptions -- Ubuntu-server-bugs mailing list [email protected] Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-server-bugs
