# Path to make ansible hostnames more flexible

**URL:** <https://forum.ansible.com/t/path-to-make-ansible-hostnames-more-flexible/12754>\
**Category:** Ansible Project\
**Tags:** ansible-project\
**Created:** [May 2, 2013, 3:09pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/path-to-make-ansible-hostnames-more-flexible/12754 "2013-05-02T15:09:10Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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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:** [May 2, 2013, 3:09pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/path-to-make-ansible-hostnames-more-flexible/12754/1 "2013-05-02T15:09:10Z")

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Yeah I’m not sure why that patch was never submitted as a pull request.

Can you send it along?

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**Author:** ![Simon\_Mudd](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c57346/32.png) [@Simon\_Mudd](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Simon_Mudd)\
**Post date:** [May 9, 2013, 10:08pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/path-to-make-ansible-hostnames-more-flexible/12754/2 "2013-05-09T22:08:47Z")

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Hi,

Sorry, I missed the response. You can find it here.  
[http://merlin.wl0.org/201305/01/ansible-1.0-extend-patterns.patch](http://merlin.wl0.org/201305/01/ansible-1.0-extend-patterns.patch)  
I didn't send it as a pull request basically because I wasn't aware of  
the right way to do this.  
Hope you understand.

Regards,

Simon

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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:** [May 9, 2013, 11:38pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/path-to-make-ansible-hostnames-more-flexible/12754/3 "2013-05-09T23:38:30Z")

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Yeah, we’ve got a process, it’s pretty much neccessary to manage the volume.

Read details here:

[https://help.github.com/articles/using-pull-requests](https://help.github.com/articles/using-pull-requests)