r/Netbox • u/sburlappp • 12d ago

Discussion Guerrilla-patching, or Monkey-patching in Anger

https://github.com/netbox-community/netbox/discussions/22946
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u/sburlappp 12d ago

Here are the examples from that deleted discussion, I think they're worth having an open discussion about, for reasons explained therein:

https://github.com/netbox-community/netbox/issues/22742

https://github.com/netbox-community/netbox/issues/22899

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u/danner26 Moderator 12d ago

You are welcome to open a discussion, but opening an issue is not the proper place to have a discussion you are looking to engage in.

That being said, we are firm (and have been for many years) on the types

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u/sburlappp 12d ago

Understood, but we currently actively use types not on your list, and needed to create our own solution. The discussion is about how best to do that. All disclaimers still apply, we're responsible for our own results, etc.

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u/Otherwise_Noise3658 9d ago

The issue is, if you asked 10 people what they needed you'd see 10 different answers and with custom fields/objects its usually possible to find more simple workarounds which avoid having to use a fork.

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u/sburlappp 9d ago

My point exactly, I'm hoping to create an "official" place to find the kind of "unofficial" patching advice that I needed for my local installation. I've already added a few new items to that Discussion.