[katello-devel] pulp 1.1 will disallow i18n names for repos... what does that mean for Katello???

[James Bowes]

On Wed, Jun 27, 2012 at 10:19:47AM -0400, Jay Dobies wrote:
> On 06/27/2012 10:16 AM, Og Maciel wrote:
> >To be honest, why can't we use a UID for this? Are we really expecting people to memorize the urls or deliberately type the url following what rails uses as standard practice? Isn't this why we have links in the web ui and bookmarks? Things could be a whole lot simpler if we used UIDs, no?
> >
> 
> That was how I pitched the restriction to Todd when I suggested it.
> Use the display name for pretty UIs and manage your own UID
> generation under the covers.
> 

I'm a big fan of having short usable repo ids in the yum repos file, and in
the urls. It really helps for debugging problems. If someone can
document the list of allowed characters, maybe katello can include some
logic to map the characters in a name to something that's somewhat
equivalent in a-z. Drop accents, etc. then just append a unique number
to the end, if needed. Or alternatively, let the user set the id for a
repo, but autopopulate that field in katello with a best guess.

> -- 
> Jay Dobies
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-James
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