Ian Denhardt

Definitely need to expose it via the client library.

I don't like the idea of hil directly acting on the metadata. Re: what to do if set_bootdev isn't called, yeah, it will just default to whatever the BIOS is...

For posterity, @SahilTikale's comment is in reference to the discussion at the meeting just now: we agreed that using the metadata mechanism to store this information was fine, but we...

1. Probably better to make it a list; many machines support both mechanisms 2. There's no reason to apply the prefix to values; namespacing the keys should do the trick....

This probably belongs in obmd now...

obmd also has its own issue tracker: https://github.com/cci-moc/obmd/issues I'm going to create a label for "needs obmd." Maybe we take those issues off of 0.3 in general, and then triage...

Ok, yeah, obviously however we organize this architecturally we need to figure out the actual mechaism first. I am going to go ahead and take this off the 0.3 milestone.

I agree on (1) as well; the complaint was the api call doesn't have a clear use (that actually works anyway; as discussed it doesn't solve the problem it was...

Yep, that's what I was thinking of, thanks for digging it up.

We'd still need to configure apache, which may be harder to do without root. Can we maybe split it off into it's own section of the build matrix, and use...