Thanks for the info Greg. I'm really kind of impartial to the name, but thought I would ask anyway due to my first impressions.
I think adding an "ansible" prefix in my case would be sufficient. Thanks! tim On Dec 15, 2015 5:45 AM, "Greg DeKoenigsberg" <[email protected]> wrote: > On Tue, Dec 15, 2015 at 1:10 AM, Tim Rupp <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hey folks, > > > > I was testing the new galaxy 2.0 import process from the p.o.v. of a > github > > organization and had a question. > > > > Right now it imports as "MyOrganization.some-twisted-rolename" > > > > I was curious if there might be a way to make that name less...dunno how > to > > phrase this other than "internal"...so that if someone were going to > install > > it they would get a "nice" role name without renaming the github > repository > > to something that would make all the other developers in the organization > > tilt their heads and say "what?" > > > > For example, to make it "pretty" (using a contrived example) if I were > the > > Redhat organization with a role in github called ansible-jboss, then > galaxy > > would make it available as "Redhat.ansible-jboss" when I actually just > want > > it to be available as "Redhat.jboss". But to rename the repo in github > to be > > just "jboss" would make existing jboss developers think that the jboss > > source was in that directory instead of ansible modules. > > The answer right now is "no, you can't". But that's one of the > reasons we're doing an early beta here: to get feedback on issues like > this. > > This is one of those questions we weighed quite a bit. In the end, we > decided that a tight and transparent linkage to Github was the right > way to go, and the ability to alias roles was less important, so we > removed the aliasing ability. > > We expect that this will mean a lot of new roles with "ansible" in the > name -- and I'm okay with that. In the past, we prohibited this; we > basically remapped these role names for you. In your example, had you > tried to import "redhat.ansible-jboss", we would have suggested > "redhat.jboss" as your role name. > > I'm happy to hear other opinions on this. Is the ability to make the > role name "pretty" important? > > --g > > -- > Greg DeKoenigsberg > Ansible Community Guy > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Ansible Project" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/ansible-project/CAM1FbhGCak%2BzWvyujPV3sS3nTYocBxLxDYEr8FZj5vAqp1N_bw%40mail.gmail.com > . > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ansible Project" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/ansible-project/CAB0Zv8jtn9Oio0wDwR4nghn%2BQ4d-oCekCOem0wa27b%3DTGNZEvw%40mail.gmail.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
