Bug 629902

Summary:	[RFE] loan-workflow: schedule a loan of a machine
Product:	[Retired] Beaker	Reporter:	Marian Csontos <mcsontos>
Component:	scheduler	Assignee:	Nick Coghlan <ncoghlan>
Status:	CLOSED DUPLICATE	QA Contact:
Severity:	medium	Docs Contact:
Priority:	low
Version:	0.5	CC:	azelinka, bpeck, dcallagh, kbaker, llim, mcsontos, parimbra, rmancy
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Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
Whiteboard:	GroupModel
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Bug Depends On:	629901
Bug Blocks:	790243

Description Marian Csontos 2010-09-03 08:38:39 UTC

Removal of Take will require more administration from lab-admins/system-owners including loaning systems and tracking them and may be more.

Allow one to queue Loan (permissions-allowing).

This is a similar use-case than Reserve-Workflow, but with the user having more control.

With reserve machine is provisioned once for given time.
This time can be extended and when it expires machine is repossessed.
The system can be returned manually earlier.

Loan-Workflow would be same pattern, but instead of provisioning the system, it would Loan the system to requester.

Things to sort-out:
- permissions
  - which users are allowed to schedule loan
  - which systems are available for loan
  - an approval system - see Bug 629901
- watchdog
  - watchdog for tracking systems

The watchdog could be managed by creating a tracking job. This would not install anything, but would start and on EWD would return the machine.

Whiteboard could be used for metadata, e.g. the reason for loan which would be helpful for longer-term loans to track the job and for the rest of users to see why's the system in use.

Comment 1 Marian Csontos 2010-09-06 11:35:25 UTC

*** Bug 630597 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 2 Dan Callaghan 2012-09-26 05:41:43 UTC

*** Bug 790243 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 3 Nick Coghlan 2012-10-17 04:37:12 UTC

Bulk reassignment of issues as Bill has moved to another team.

Comment 4 Nick Coghlan 2013-04-15 08:28:44 UTC

Marking this as a duplicate of #622439, which requests a similar capability without overspecifying a particular design.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 622439 ***