RFC: FEATURE_BUNDLE_1: Collection of Small Improvements

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  • Idea for RFC to collect small improvements #77

Description

There are many small improvements that could be made to Open Job Description that would make it easier and more expressive to write job templates. It is proposed that many of these could be bundled into an extension called FEATURE_BUNDLE_1.

These features would include:

1. Name length limit increases for parameter names, job names, step names, environment names, file names, and identifiers.
2. Job Parameter count limit increases
3. Format string enhancements for timeout
4. EOL control in embedded files
5. Syntax sugar for script interpreters commonly used in templates in <Action> objects. This would include bash, python, cmd, powershell, and node.
6. onRun in <StepActions> action property generalization

Roles

Role	User
Proposed By	@mwiebe @epmog
Author(s)	@edwards-aws

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