[GOSSIP-37] Add an initial gossip state

• Type: New Feature
• Status: Open
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Unresolved
• Fix Version/s: 0.1.3
• Assignee: Chandresh Pancholi
• Reporter: Edward Capriolo
• Created: 08/Jan/17 16:06
• Updated: 04/Mar/17 00:59

Description

Currently we only have two states UP and DOWN. This is problematic. If a node, starts based in its configuration seeds those nodes are part of the cluster. We can start them in either state, up or down but either is problematic because as the node starts its ActiveGossip process it will transmit that data. It is also misleading when we do not know if the node is Alive or Dead.

I think the right thing to do is introduce a third state, INITIAL. When a node is in an initial state the ActiveGossipThread will not transmit the state of that node.