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From: "David Caro" <dcaroest@redhat.com> To: "infra" <infra@ovirt.org> Sent: Thursday, February 20, 2014 10:52:23 PM Subject: Scripting guidelines
Hi everyone!
Lately I've had a hard time to properly review some patches containing shell scripts to manage our infrastructure because there's no guidelines. So I created a wiki page with a proposal [1]. It's made up as a mix of some already existing guidelines.
The reason to wrote a bash style guide and not a shell stile guide is because I think that bash is widely adopted (default GNU shell) and provides enough advantages to sacrifice some portability. I think that most of our maintenance and management scripts will never be run on non-GNU OSes.
POSIX compliance should be only used when really needed, for example, scripts to build a specific project, that might be run on non-GNU based systems in the far future.
This thread is to start a discussion about it so please, share your opinions and concerns (and proposals).
We already discussed that, I think it is wrong for trivial scripts to use bash. No need to discuss that over and over. The problem is that there is nobody to have authority to decide anything. Open Source is not anarchy nor democracy, there should be strict hierarchy. And we lack that, so anarchy is in action. As for infra, it is not part of anything we distribute so it is not that important, however, standards compliance is something that should be considered.
[1] http://www.ovirt.org/Bash_style_guide
Cheers!
-- David Caro
Red Hat S.L. Continuous Integration Engineer - EMEA ENG Virtualization R&D
Email: dcaro@redhat.com Web: www.redhat.com RHT Global #: 82-62605
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