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With service dependency ordering (#16), a service that is waiting for its
dependencies to reach up reads as down — the same as a service that
simply hasn't been started yet. The dashboard cannot distinguish these two
cases. A user looking at the dashboard cannot tell whether a service is idle
or actively waiting on something.
Proposal
Add a fifth state to the service status model — e.g., queued or waiting
— that represents "ready to start, blocked on dependency". The dashboard
renders it distinctly from down so the user can see that progress is
expected.
This was deliberately deferred from the dependency-ordering proposal to keep
the four-state machine intact; revisit once that work has landed and we have
a feel for whether the conflation actually causes confusion.
Open questions
Naming: queued, waiting, pending, something else?
Application status derivation: does queued propagate to the app, or does
the app status remain a function of up/starting/crashed only?
Problem
With service dependency ordering (#16), a service that is waiting for its
dependencies to reach
upreads asdown— the same as a service thatsimply hasn't been started yet. The dashboard cannot distinguish these two
cases. A user looking at the dashboard cannot tell whether a service is idle
or actively waiting on something.
Proposal
Add a fifth state to the service status model — e.g.,
queuedorwaiting— that represents "ready to start, blocked on dependency". The dashboard
renders it distinctly from
downso the user can see that progress isexpected.
This was deliberately deferred from the dependency-ordering proposal to keep
the four-state machine intact; revisit once that work has landed and we have
a feel for whether the conflation actually causes confusion.
Open questions
queued,waiting,pending, something else?queuedpropagate to the app, or doesthe app status remain a function of
up/starting/crashedonly?covered separately by subscribing to the dep closure?
Scope
Depends on #16 landing first.