[Freeipa-devel] [PATCHES] 0455-0459 Add support for managed permissions

Petr Spacek pspacek at redhat.com
Mon Jan 27 08:17:24 UTC 2014


On 27.1.2014 08:07, Martin Kosek wrote:
> On 01/24/2014 05:23 PM, Simo Sorce wrote:
>> On Fri, 2014-01-24 at 17:17 +0100, Petr Viktorin wrote:
>>> On 01/24/2014 04:57 PM, Simo Sorce wrote:
>>>> On Fri, 2014-01-24 at 16:48 +0100, Petr Viktorin wrote:
> ...
>>>> Technically we could alias the name so the attribute can be called
>>>> either way, but that is not necessarily a good option either.
>>>
>>> If breaking master is unacceptable, we can use the old name instead.
>>> ipaPermIncludedAttr is more consistent but ipaPermAllowedAttr isn't
>>> downright wrong.
>>
>> Ok, let's hear other opinions, I see a lot f value in consistent naming,
>> and not breaking a developer build is not that strong of a reason to
>> have substandard naming I guess. What do others think ?
>>
>> Simo.
>
> Hmm, I obviously see things differently here. I would rather "break" the master
> and let developers running on the git version to reinstall the servers
> (including myself) than to have to live with suboptimal attribute name for ever
> or by adding unnecessary cruft to the code...

(Speaking as lab admin:) Please, break it! It will force people to finally 
reinstall years old VMs! :-)

-- 
Petr^2 Spacek




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