# galaxy feedback

**URL:** <https://forum.ansible.com/t/galaxy-feedback/14190>\
**Category:** Ansible Developer\
**Tags:** galaxy-ng\
**Created:** [December 20, 2013, 9:55am UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/galaxy-feedback/14190 "2013-12-20T09:55:24Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
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**Author:** ![Rene\_Moser](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/7bcc69/32.png) [@Rene\_Moser](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Rene_Moser)\
**Post date:** [December 20, 2013, 9:55am UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/galaxy-feedback/14190/1 "2013-12-20T09:55:24Z")

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Hi

Quick feedback:

- First, whow, kind if like it. 🙂 GREAT JOB!
- the role naming / github repo on galaxy was irritating: please provide some examples how to fill this forms. had to reverse engineer it 🙂
- add support other git repo hosters as well. bitbucket?
- suggest role named like convention ansible-role-?
- ansible-galaxy was not installed using make install. made a pull request…
- ansible-galaxy init makes a templates/main.yml. what is this for? did I miss anything?

Yours René

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**Author:** ![Rene\_Moser](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/7bcc69/32.png) [@Rene\_Moser](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Rene_Moser)\
**Post date:** [December 20, 2013, 11:01am UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/galaxy-feedback/14190/2 "2013-12-20T11:01:32Z")

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- `ansible-galaxy list` also show non-galaxy roles? should not imho.
- –roles-path is not in help of ansible-galaxy, only in error message 🙂
- on galaxy, the defaults.yml /defaults/main.yml should be parsed to show it on the role details. So we must not put those defaults do README.md like I did [https://github.com/resmo/ansible-role-zabbix-agent](https://github.com/resmo/ansible-role-zabbix-agent)
- show github url on galaxy? would help to improve/forge the role…
- galaxy role import task does not reload so “importing” shows forever?
- email validation was not working on first run. had to manually “re-validate” it.

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**Author:** ![Michael\_DeHaan2](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/da6949/32.png) [@Michael\_DeHaan2](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Michael_DeHaan2)\
**Post date:** [December 20, 2013, 2:11pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/galaxy-feedback/14190/3 "2013-12-20T14:11:46Z")

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- the role naming / github repo on galaxy was irritating: please provide some examples how to fill this forms. had to reverse engineer it 🙂

We’re going to allow typing in a role name very very soon so you can name the github repo anything you want.

- add support other git repo hosters as well. bitbucket?

Unlikely for this to happen very soon. We’re leaning on the GitHub API for lots of shiny things. I like GitHub and it makes things consistent, and if someone wants to file an issue, they are not going to need accounts on multiple services.

- suggest role named like convention ansible-role-?

See first reply 🙂

- ansible-galaxy was not installed using make install. made a pull request…

It was on the 1.4.2 branch, but thanks – now setup.py includes it on the development branch as well.

- ansible-galaxy init makes a templates/main.yml. what is this for? did I miss anything?

I filed a ticket on this this AM, there’s no point in creating a main.yml in this directory, and is easy to remove 🙂 Thanks!

- `ansible-galaxy list` also show non-galaxy roles? should not imho.

It creates role scaffolding that isn’t galaxy specific too, so I think this is probably decent behavior.

- –roles-path is not in help of ansible-galaxy, only in error message 🙂

Please file a bug with steps to reproduce in this case. Thanks!

- on galaxy, the defaults.yml /defaults/main.yml should be parsed to show it on the role details. So we must not put those defaults do README.md like I did [https://github.com/resmo/ansible-role-zabbix-agent](https://github.com/resmo/ansible-role-zabbix-agent)

That’s an interesting idea. I like the idea of having a “defaults” tab and some other things, just like we might move “platforms” to a seperate tab or something too later.

- show github url on galaxy? would help to improve/forge the role…

Yep, we have a note to add this soon. It was in a prior build but accidentally lost – right now, click on the issue tracker and from there just click on the repo, and boom, you’re at the github homepage for that role. Totally agree.

- galaxy role import task does not reload so “importing” shows forever?

We need to add a reload button on the page at least so this is obvious, or not make a spinner and make it clear you have to reload. Correct in that it’s not a dynamic widget.

- email validation was not working on first run. had to manually “re-validate” it.

Not sure what this means, but email me with details and I’ll pass this along.

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**Author:** ![Rene\_Moser](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/7bcc69/32.png) [@Rene\_Moser](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Rene_Moser)\
**Post date:** [December 20, 2013, 8:35pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/galaxy-feedback/14190/4 "2013-12-20T20:35:37Z")

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I am missing an

ansible-galaxy update

which must currently done with

ansible-galaxy install --force

not very sexy 🙂 but not really a big problem. I just wondered how to update a role.

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**Author:** ![Remy\_GARRIGUE](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/ba9def/32.png) [@Remy\_GARRIGUE](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Remy_GARRIGUE)\
**Post date:** [January 13, 2014, 10:34am UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/galaxy-feedback/14190/5 "2014-01-13T10:34:27Z")

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Hi guys

Here’s my own feedback

- update +1
- url to github +1
- don’t forget the man page 😉

Cheers,