community.general/docs/proposals/rename_always_run.md

Rename always_run to checkmode_run

Author: René Moser <@resmo>

Date: 02/03/2016

Motivation

The task argument always_run is misleading.

Ansible is known to be readable by users without deep knowledge of creating playbooks, they do not understand what always_run does at the first glance.

Problems

The following looks scary if you have no idea, what always_run does:

- shell: dangerous_cleanup.sh
  when: cleanup == "yes"
  always_run: yes

You have a conditional but also a word that says always. This is a conflict in terms of understanding.

Solution Proposal

Deprecate always_run by rename it to checkmode_run:

- shell: dangerous_cleanup.sh
  when: cleanup == "yes"
  checkmode_run: yes