#Oh lovely, CI is broken
gilded blaze
#core message same?
vital gull
this seems related to aliases now having None as default value
gilded blaze
ah, so its broken in multiple ways
vital gull
@magic widget what's the reason aliases is a list of None now?
magic widget
You gotta watch out for that now for some time when merging things
magic widget
<@777887472726048779> what's the reason aliases is a list of None now?
that's the default now
vital gull
but why
magic widget
because of new registry version
vital gull
No I mean, why a list of None, what does that None tell us
magic widget
None means use default generated name
gilded blaze
why not empty?
magic widget
because empty means empty
gilded blaze
can you provide an example?
vital gull
duh
Let me change the question, what is aliases used for, why where they empty, and why is [None] now the default, and what other values would it have and how would it reflect in the entity?
And I am not trying to doubt the decisions made, at this point I just want to understand what this means 😂
I always thought aliases was for google assistant/alexa
magic widget
it used to always use friendly name as an alias automatically, now it doesn't
magic widget
I always thought `aliases` was for google assistant/alexa
Alexa never used aliases
just Assist and Google Assistant
vital gull
it used to always use friendly name as an alias automatically, now it doesn't
and why?
gilded blaze
```
aliases: []
```
common Artur...
magic widget
not sure what more information you need:
[None] - use the generated full name as an alias
[] - empty, no aliases
gilded blaze
what is the generated full name as an alias? Device Name + Entity Name?
magic widget
yes
gilded blaze
and the user can remove it (the None) from the alias, and add it back?
magic widget
once the frontend is done, yes
gilded blaze
why is the PR merged before the frontend is ready?
magic widget
frontend is done in stages, with multiple PRs, the major one was merged