Explore automated detection of which metadata files are present in a product repo

[maherou]

The e4s_product.yaml file presently lists which files are present in each product repo. I think it would be better to discover which files were present by looking for them as part of the raking process. This way, product teams could add a new file and it would be discovered automatically.

In general, I think it would be better to have no information other than the base URL in the e4s_product.yaml file.

Perhaps you are already moving in this direction, but want to make sure.

[wspear]

Yes, I just pulled in the prototype to work from. My current plan is to reduce the e4s_product.yaml file to just the project names and URL's (and possibly category info for sorting) and get other information from an e4s.yaml file either provided by the project or, as a backup, provided in project-specific e4s.yaml files from our repo here.

[maherou]

In the spirit of allowing teams to manage all content in their repositories, I think it would be best to have all information in the individual product repos. We should only need the URL. Even the product name and category is best raked (I think) from the repo.

[wspear]

That seems workable. I think I will end up using the repo name as seen in the URL for some purposes then, at least to keep local/cached project metadata in human-readable locations.