Please autotag roles with the role name

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ISSUE TYPE

• Feature Idea

COMPONENT NAME

Core

ANSIBLE VERSION

$ ansible --version
ansible 2.2.0 (devel 4ed88512e4) last updated 2016/09/07 08:35:44 (GMT +200)
  lib/ansible/modules/core: (detached HEAD 5a5c1491ae) last updated 2016/09/07 08:37:39 (GMT +200)
  lib/ansible/modules/extras: (detached HEAD 1474bde864) last updated 2016/09/07 08:37:39 (GMT +200)
  config file = /var/scratch/src/ansible/ansible/ansible.cfg
  configured module search path = Default w/o overrides

CONFIGURATION

OS / ENVIRONMENT

Debian unstable

SUMMARY

Please autotag roles with the role name:

I always end up writing code like:

roles:
  - { role: webserver, tags: [ 'webserver' ] }
  - { role: proxy, tags: [ 'proxy' ] }
  - { role: foobar, tags: [ 'foobar' ] }

This allows to run and test roles independently (otherwise they'd had dependencies on each other anyway) like:

ansible-playbook -i localhost, -l localhost play.yml -t foobar

Now it would be nice if the all tasks in a role would automatically get tagged with the role name so this would become:

roles:
  - webserver
  - proxy
  - foobar

But I could still use

ansible-playbook -i localhost, -l localhost play.yml -t foobar

to only run tasks from the foobar role.

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