On Wed, Aug 22, 2018 at 12:45:19PM +0200, Andrea Bolognani wrote:
> On Wed, 2018-08-22 at 12:19 +0200, Erik Skultety wrote:
> > On Wed, Aug 22, 2018 at 11:44:16AM +0200, Andrea Bolognani wrote:
> > > Other user-defined variables use underscores as
> > > separator instead of dashes; this change will also
> > > help us out later.
> >
> > There are variables like child-workspace, block-upstream, days-to-keep, 
> > etc. in
> > most of the templates under jobs/ which would fancy a similar care since 
> > you're
> > striving for consistency in variable naming here. Anyway, I'm quite 
> > ambivalent
> > about the patch, I don't mind having it in, but I don't feel like this is 
> > the
> > kind of change we want to merge. Having said that though, there already are
> > commits like that, so my argument is invalid.
> >
> > If you show some love to the other variables which suffer from the same
> > "plague" too:
> >
> > Reviewed-by: Erik Skultety <eskul...@redhat.com>
>
> Note "user-defined" above: all the other names you mentioned are
> part of JJB's own grammar for defining jobs, so we couldn't change
> them even if we wanted to.
>
> Perhaps I should have expanded the "help us out later" bit in the
> commit message to explain that this is not a gratuitous change
> made just to satisfy my craving for consistency[1]: while JJB is
> okay with user variables having dashes is them, Ansible is very
> much not, and if you look ahead to patch 06/12 you'll see why

Ah, good to know.

Thanks,
Erik

> keeping the existing name would just not work - hence this patch.
>
>
> [1] Though I'll admit I'm absolutely not above doing that ;)
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