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No, I'm suggesting they should all be treated as a single role. I.e. roles
should be case insensitive.

Thanks,
Kiall

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On Jun 8, 2012 11:16 p.m., "Brian Waldon" <brian.waldon at rackspace.com>
wrote:

> I'm suggesting we support only a single representation of a role across
> all projects: 'admin', 'Admin', and 'admIn' would be three separate roles.
>
> Are you suggesting otherwise?
>
> On Jun 8, 2012, at 3:14 PM, Kiall Mac Innes wrote:
>
> What's the argument for allowing both, for example, "admin", "Admin" and
> "admIn" roles?
>
> This seems like one place where case insensitive makes the most sense.
>
> Thanks,
> Kiall
>
> Sent from my phone.
> On Jun 8, 2012 11:01 p.m., "Joseph Suh" <jsuh at isi.edu> wrote:
>
>> I'd vote case-sensitive.
>>
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>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "Brian Waldon" <brian.waldon at rackspace.com>
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>> 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?
>>
>>
>> Brian Waldon
>>
>>
>>
>>
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