On Wed, 2014-03-12 at 11:37 +0000, CARVER, PAUL wrote: > I have personally witnessed someone (honestly, not me) select "Terminate > Instance" when they meant "Reboot Instance" and that mistake is way too easy. > I'm not sure if it was a brain mistake or mere slip of the mouse, but it's > enough to make people really nervous in a production environment. If there's > one thing you can count on about human beings, it's that they'll make > mistakes sooner or later. Any system that assumes infallible human beings as > a design criteria is making an invalid assumption.
That's why GUIs should have a dialog box that says "Are you sure you want to terminate this server?". There's prevention of common mistakes, and then there's going out of your way to ensure that the cloud acts like a text editor with an unlimiited undo buffer. Best, -jay _______________________________________________ OpenStack-dev mailing list OpenStack-dev@lists.openstack.org http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openstack-dev
