Code of Conduct
What article on docs.github.com is affected?
YAML examples in https://docs.github.com/actions
What part(s) of the article would you like to see updated?
YAML treats floats like 2.10 as 2.1. This can lead to workflows using a different language version than intended. We should update the YAML examples to quote language versions to avoid this. To help users who copy-paste-modify without understanding the nuance, we should quote all language versions, even ones that would not be affected by this parsing.
For example:
jobs:
build:
runs-on: ubuntu-latest
strategy:
matrix:
python-version: [3.6, 3.7, 3.8, 3.9]
should be changed to
jobs:
build:
runs-on: ubuntu-latest
strategy:
matrix:
python-version: ["3.6", "3.7", "3.8", "3.9"]
Then if a user copies the example but wants to include version 3.10, they can easily plug in the new value without knowing they need to add quotes.
Additional information
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Actions articles with examples that need quotes
Code of Conduct
What article on docs.github.com is affected?
YAML examples in https://docs.github.com/actions
What part(s) of the article would you like to see updated?
YAML treats floats like
2.10as2.1. This can lead to workflows using a different language version than intended. We should update the YAML examples to quote language versions to avoid this. To help users who copy-paste-modify without understanding the nuance, we should quote all language versions, even ones that would not be affected by this parsing.For example:
should be changed to
Then if a user copies the example but wants to include version 3.10, they can easily plug in the new value without knowing they need to add quotes.
Additional information
No response
Actions articles with examples that need quotes