[johnklos]

Seriously, people need to chill the duck out. If a presentation needs to be so incredibly serious, then why blame others when you should've run through it at least once yourself?

Why do people think that "serious" and seemingly "professional" should outweigh levity in life? It's not too different than worrying about dress code: it's anal to an extreme that doesn't help anyone.

[barnabee]

Totally agree

It’s sad that so many people would rather avoid any form of individuality or fun than risk having to tolerate someone else’s idea of fun that they don’t like.

[4gotunameagain]

Sometimes it has to do with people not having much more to offer other than a professional appearance :)

This is not always the case of course

[bravetraveler]

I don't think the Git issue framed it well. Pinning this on a single meeting or interaction makes it easy to trivialize

As someone who uses Ansible a lot, I giggled. Once.

Afterwards I figured out how to disable it because the novelty was gone. The output this creates is a slog.

Now I 'have' to remember to create Ansible.cfg files across countless projects because someone thinks this is that funny.

That's the most portable approach; it's the best way for contributors. Otherwise I'd set the environment variable on all of my shells and call it done.

I forget so often that I've been trained to cancel a playbook as soon as I see a cow from fact gathering.

It's more of an annoyance than a real problem.

Anyone with cowsay installed on their controller (this isn't always a workstation or human) is initiated in the 'know how to disable this' crew, and gets to regularly attend meetings

I feel the feature would work better randomly appearing. Maybe make it visually useful, automatic on the slowest-known run.

It retains the novelty because it isn't a constant.

[karmakaze]

I like levity. I value my vertical text space even more.