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[Dan Prince <dprince@xxxxxxxxxx>]

----- Original Message -----
> From: "Brian Waldon" <brian.waldon@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: "openstack@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (openstack@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx)" <openstack@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Friday, June 8, 2012 5:50:45 PM
> Subject: [Openstack] Comparing roles - case (in)sensitivity
> 
> tl;dr - Should we compare roles as case-sensitive or
> case-insensitive? I vote case-sensitive.
> 
> This bug was recently filed in Glance:
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/glance/+bug/1010519. It points out that
> Nova and Keystone are both case-insensitive when it comes to role
> comparison, yet Glance *is* case sensitive. I'm in favor of moving
> other projects to a case-sensitive approach for two main reasons:
> 
> 1) If a role is a string, and comparing strings is inherently
> case-sensitive, then role comparison would logically be
> case-sensitive
> 2) I get to do less work
> 
> Thoughts?


My vote is that we make Glance case-insensitive.

I think I may be the one that changed Nova to be case-insensitive as well as I had some real head scratchers with 'admin' vs. 'Admin' at one point.

To me allowing roles will just get too confusing if we allow case sensitive comparisons.

Dan


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> Brian Waldon
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