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

[Bryan Kearney]

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