[katello-devel] Renaming of environments: summary

[Dmitri Dolguikh]

On 13/08/12 03:54 PM, Jason Rist wrote:
> On Mon 13 Aug 2012 08:45:46 AM MDT, Dmitri Dolguikh wrote:
>> This is a summary of the thread started at
>> https://www.redhat.com/archives/katello-devel/2012-August/msg00102.html.
>> Please see https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=795928 for
>> details of the issue with environment renaming.
>>
>> Quite a few folks suggested using of an immutable label instead of
>> environment name, but at the end the idea was defeated by a comment
>> from Cliff Perry about users from locales using non-ascii-based
>> character sets.
>> Another issue that was discovered was the migration of already
>> established environments from current version of Katello to the
>> version containing the fix. My current thinking is to use environment
>> name value as uuid for "legacy" environments. This would significantly
>> simply upgrade, as there will be no need to regenerate entitlement
>> certificates, etc.
>>
>> Katello:
>>   - introduce environment uuids (update db schema, model, etc)
>>   - update candlepin (this will include updates to schema, and resource
>> controller)
>>   - update katello/katello cli to use uuids for environment identification
>>   - update repository-related functionality to use environment uuids
>>   - figure out/create migration from 1.0 to current
>>
>> Bryan, everything minus the migration bit is probably a couple days
>> worth of work. Should I create a new story, or I can start on this
>> right away?
>>
>> -d
>>
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>
> Dmitri - I'd like to thank you for setting the precedent of summarizing
> the email chain that you started.  This is so helpful for those of us
> that a) have a hard time tracking such a long conversation and b) want
> to get an understanding of the expectations and scope of these types of
> changes.
>
> That said,  I agree with the points you've laid out. This seems like a
> valid way forward.  Can we use the current naming if it already exists
> rather than reassigning or migrating to a UUID?
My current thinking is exactly that - I'm proposing using current 
environment names as environment ids for current installations of Katello.

-d
>
> -J
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