Scripting guidelines

[Alon Bar-Lev]

----- Original Message -----
> From: "David Caro" <dcaroest at redhat.com>
> To: "infra" <infra at 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
> 
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