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New Environment variable: CI_PROJECT_NAME_SLUG

Description

I have some project names that are not friendly for URLs and domain names (namely, periods):

  • Website.com
  • Website.ca (similar as above but not same)
  • Project.Edison

I use the project name as part of the environment URL definition and without the CI_PROJECT_NAME_SLUG variable the URL won't work. I work around this in the jobs by stripping the troublesome characters out.

Proposal

$CI_PROJECT_NAME_SLUG = $CI_PROJECT_NAME lowercased, shortened to 63 bytes, and with everything except 0-9 and a-z replaced with -. Use in URLs and domain names.

Documentation blurb

Include in table on https://docs.gitlab.com/ce/ci/variables/#predefined-variables-environment-variables:

$CI_PROJECT_NAME_SLUG = $CI_PROJECT_NAME lowercased, shortened to 63 bytes, and with everything except 0-9 and a-z replaced with -. Use in URLs and domain names.