Thanks for the feedback, I opened a PR at [1]

[1] https://github.com/theforeman/community-templates/pull/344

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Marek

On pátek 25. listopadu 2016 15:40:53 CET Marek Hulán wrote:
> Hello foreman devs,
> 
> As I demonstrated on last community demo [1] templates can be now easily
> exported from Foreman. I also mentioned that I'm working [2] on
> foreman_templates feature to easily export all templates to a given git
> repo. Since the plugin can be used with any git repo, not just the
> community- templates [3] one, I'd like to standardize the format of such
> repository.
> 
> When we export templates from Foreman, we can only use template attributes
> to determine the resulting path in the repo. First obvious idea is to name
> the template file according to it's name in Foreman. That's probably not
> enough since it wold result in one directory mixing all partition tables,
> provisioning templates and job templates. So I came up with structure like
> $template_type/$name. For better look and feel of what it means, you can
> see it in one of my branches [4].
> 
> Currently we also separate provisioning templates into more directories. I
> don't think the rule is well defined today. I think we could separate it per
> template kind. Again you can see this demonstrated in another branch at
> [5]. It applies only to provisioning templates, other types don't have
> template kind attribute.
> 
> Please share your ideas for other structuring or which of schema mentioned
> above you find better. The level of nesting does not matter from technical
> point of view but I think 2 or 3 directories is the limit.
> 
> The ultimate goal of making foreman_templates exporting compatible with
> community-templates is making sharing of user changes easy, in fact just a
> matter of opening PR from the forked repo. Another nice benefit would be
> that future changes in metadata, e.g. adding organizations and locations
> keys would be much easier, we'd just reexport all templates from Foreman
> with updated export code.
> 
> Since we now have metadata as a part of each template we could also improve
> seeding to avoid hard coding the list in seed files [6]
> 
> [1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M0-3x8AUfFQ
> [2] https://github.com/theforeman/foreman_templates/pull/36
> [3] https://github.com/theforeman/community-templates
> [4] https://github.com/ares/community-templates/tree/develop_kind_only
> [5]
> https://github.com/ares/community-templates/tree/develop_kind_and_subkind
> [6]
> https://github.com/theforeman/foreman/blob/develop/db/seeds.d/07-provisioni
> ng_templates.rb#L21-L94
> 
> Thanks for all comments
> 
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> Marek

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