I think Dennis's reasoning is good. I would also find this feature practical. Would it be possible to do a core module called 'role'?
On Friday, October 4, 2013 5:13:25 PM UTC+3, Michael DeHaan wrote: > > "This does kinda solve the issue, however we want to treat the role as > readonly because changing it could break other playbooks." > > Ok, I'm confused now. > > What does "readonly" mean? > > Just don't modify the role in source control? > > > > On Fri, Oct 4, 2013 at 10:10 AM, Steve Weber <steve....@gmail.com > <javascript:>> wrote: > >> > Saying you don't like ansible and then suggesting people use something >> else and linking to it isn't a good way to make friends. You could have >> left that part out. >> >> Was not the intention.. >> >> I have been using Ansible for ~a year and hit many roadblocks throughout >> the development. >> I did add that you are doing a good job keeping up to pace on issues. >> >> > Roles already support dependencies as well since 1.3. >> This does kinda solve the issue, however we want to treat the role as >> readonly because changing it could break other playbooks. >> >> Anyway, keep up the good work and best of luck with AWX >> >> On Friday, 4 October 2013 09:22:56 UTC-4, Michael DeHaan wrote: >> >>> Hi Steve, >>> >>> Saying you don't like ansible and then suggesting people use something >>> else and linking to it isn't a good way to make friends. You could have >>> left that part out. >>> >>> I'll help you anyway though, but please don't do it again. >>> >>> I strongly disagree that roles make any assumptions about whether they >>> are for bootstrap/basic/infrastructure/application. You will see in >>> the documentation and code there's nothing in there at all about these >>> kinds of things and they are quite general purpose. >>> >>> As for a repository of roles, we're working on that. Stay tuned! >>> >>> Roles already support dependencies as well since 1.3. >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> On Fri, Oct 4, 2013 at 8:48 AM, Steve Weber <steve....@gmail.com> wrote: >>> >>>> I should add that Michael is doing an excellent good job improving >>>> these issues. >>>> >>>> I'm explicitly glad to see defaults/main.yml added to roles. This was >>>> my largest issue with sharing roles. >>>> >>>> -- >>>> 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 ansible-proje...@googlegroups.com. >>>> >>>> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. >>>> >>> >>> >>> >>> -- >>> Michael DeHaan <mic...@ansibleworks.com> >>> >>> CTO, AnsibleWorks, Inc. >>> http://www.ansibleworks.com/ >>> >>> -- >> 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 ansible-proje...@googlegroups.com <javascript:>. >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. >> > > > > -- > Michael DeHaan <mic...@ansibleworks.com <javascript:>> > CTO, AnsibleWorks, Inc. > http://www.ansibleworks.com/ > > -- 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 ansible-project+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to ansible-project@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/ansible-project/626b051f-fb47-4cfd-9d98-be31184a2156%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
