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by bravetraveler 1510 days ago
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.