On 5 Dec 2012, at 16:43, jcbollinger <john.bollin...@stjude.org> wrote:
>
>
> On Sunday, September 30, 2012 4:37:29 AM UTC-5, R.I. Pienaar wrote:
>>
>>
>> I propose extending the module layout with a data/ directory that can go
>> into each module and in this data directory would live a hiera config
>> file (optionally) and module specific data:
> [...]
>> Here the data/hiera.json is optional and specifies a hierarchy that the
>> module author chooses and is unique to the specific backend.
>>
>> The default contents would be this is the file is absent:
>>
>> {"hierarchy": ["osfamily/%{osfamily}", "common"]}
>
> Having thought about this some more, I still think it's a great idea, but
> giving special support to 'osfamily' in the default in-module hierarchy seems
> a bit smelly to me. I don't doubt that categorizing data by osfamily would
> be a frequent practice, but making a special case for it straight off the bat
> doesn't feel right to me.
>
> Certainly the default osfamily support wouldn't be directly harmful to users,
> inasmuch as they can easily ignore or override it, but I nevertheless urge
> you to keep it simple.
Do you have an alternative default hierarchy you'd prefer?
> The backlog of open tickets attests to the fact that PL doesn't really have
> enough engineering capacity as it is.
Not sure what the relevance is here..
>
>
> John
>
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