[katello-devel] Design Question: Promotions of tempaltes

[Mike McCune]

On 08/12/2011 02:34 PM, Todd Warner wrote:
> On 08/12/2011 04:25 PM, Bryan Kearney wrote:
>> Today.. in the cli we support changesets to which products, repos, or
>> packages can be added. The changeset is then promoted.
>>
>> We also support a direct tempalte promotion:
>>
>>   template promote --org ACME_Corporation --name Katello
>>
>> So.. a couple of questions:
>>
>> 1) Should all promotions be done via changesets? I think so.
>>
>> 2) Is the above cli acceptable as long as it creates the changeset,
>> adds the templates, and promotes it? I will vote it is
>>
>>
>> So.. the command line could have
>>
>> product promote
>> package promote
>> template promote
>>
>> as long as the data that is given is enough to create a valid change
>> set (from env, to env, etc). All that is created and moved along.
>>
>> Does this weem valid?
>>
>> -- bk
>
> I agree. Then it becomes an "atomic" transaction that is traceable as a
> unit.

another +1 from me.  Also good if you can do it separately too, where 
you can from the CLI do all the steps individually.

>
> Followon question...
>
> Where do these come in?
> - RHSA promote
> - CVE promote
> - IAVA promote (though I know we haven't talked about IAVAs much/enough)
>

Excuse my ignorance, but what is an IAVA.  Sounds like some sorta ice 
tea drink you find at a health food store.

Mike