[katello-devel] Renaming of environments: summary, take II

[Mike McCune]

On 08/17/2012 07:32 AM, Dmitri Dolguikh wrote:
> On 17/08/12 03:13 PM, Bryan Kearney wrote:
>> On 08/15/2012 01:46 PM, Dmitri Dolguikh wrote:
>>> Please see original conversation thread [1], first attempt at summary
>>> [2], and BZ [3] for details.
>>>
>>> The majority of the conversation revolved around use of human-readable
>>> ids to preserve user-friendiness of urls vs. using uuids to preserve
>>> data consistency of client applications that use Katello API. Another
>>> concern expressed was readability of repository urls genereated by
>>> Katello in yum configuration files. It was suggested to use Punycode for
>>> encoding of non-ascii-based labels.
>>>
>>> Proposed changes:
>>>    - introduce immutable labels
>>>    - replace use of environment name with environment label in urls not
>>> impacting data integrity, such as repository urls. This would eliminate
>>> the need for entitlement certificate regeneration after environment name
>>> changes
>>>    - introduce uuids, and replace current use of primary db keys in
>>> resource urls with uuids
>>>
>>> Tasks on Katello side:
>>>    - take a look at and implement Punycode
>>>    - introduce environment labels: db changes, model changes, controller
>>> changes
>>>    - introduce uuids: db changes, model changes, controller changes
>>>    - figure out migration for existing Katello installations
>>>
>>> Tasks on Candlepin side:
>>>    - add label and uuid fields to model. Replace use of environment names
>>> with environment labels
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> [1]
>>> https://www.redhat.com/archives/katello-devel/2012-August/msg00102.html
>>> [2]
>>> https://www.redhat.com/archives/katello-devel/2012-August/msg00144.html
>>> [3] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=795928
>>> [4] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Punycode
>>>
>>
>> so, in katello, if I create an environment called JarJar, a product
>> called Binks, and a repo called IsASuperStar, today I would see this:
>>
>> [jarjar-binks-IsASuperStar]
>> Name: JarJarBinksIsASuperStar
>> baseurl:JarJar/Binks/IsASuperStar
>>
>> What will i see tomorow?
>>
>> - bk
> I'm assuming that you are asking what you are going to see in yum
> repository configuration file. I'm proposing to keep that file without
> any changes, with the exception that we use environment label instead of
> the name. For existing installations, I'm proposing to initialize label
> with current environment name during the migration.
>

that sounds perfect .. label is fine

Mike