[katello-devel] Modelling of environments, products, etc in Katello (related to renaming of environments)

[Bryan Kearney]

On 08/09/2012 10:04 AM, jesus m. rodriguez wrote:
> On 08/09/2012 08:20 AM, James Bowes wrote:
>> On Thu, Aug 09, 2012 at 12:34:57PM +0100, Dmitri Dolguikh wrote:
>>> Please see https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=795928 for
>>> description of an issue with environment renaming.
>>>
>>> The immediate problems around environments: using of environment
>>> names and environment ids for identification of environments
>>> interchangeably. Using db ids for environment identification when
>>> not using environment names.
>>>
>>> To resolve these:
>>>   - introduce environment uuids
>>>   - update katello/katello cli to use uuids for environment
>>> identification
>>>   - update repository naming to use environment uuids
>>>   - update candlepin (this will include updates to schema, and
>>> resource controller)
>>>
>>
>> -1 to UUIDs, for the same reason as has been discussed wrt pulp
>> repo labels. a url like:
>>
>> https://my-cdn.local/content/dev/rhel-server/i386/
>>
>> is way more useful than:
>>
>> https://my-cdn.local/content/abc123213-23423423-aaa123/rhel-server/i386/
>>
>> not to mention, far more handsome!
>>
>> I'd rather see either immutable labels, or supporting renaming labels,
>> too.
>>
>> To clarify, UUIDs are fine imo as an internal canonical id for envs
>> within katello as a whole, but once the env is exposed on the cli or in
>> a url, label should be used.
>
> +1000 to labels
> -1000 to using the UUID


you dont get to vote in thousands. :)

-- bk