I started the Twitter Reply category so I would be able to reply to things I saw on Twitter that needed to be done outside of the 140-character limit. I’ve used it this way a few times, however, today’s usage is a little different. Although it incorporates Twitter and it’s going to take longer than 140 characters, I’m not actually replying to someone so much. Instead, I am bringing up an event that transpired on Twitter.
First, let me begin by saying how impressed I am with at least one of the developers—I’m guessing he’s a developer—working on the AWSPowerShell module. Last Wednesday, I tweeted that I had started and then stopped an EC2 instance using the Start-EC2Instance and Stop-EC2Instance cmdlets. I noticed a naming difference between identical parameters used by these two, complimentary cmdlets, as I mentioned in my Tweet.
Dear Diary: I also stopped my first #AWS instance using #PowerShell. Start-EC2Instance has -InstanceID param and Stop- has -Instance. Huh?
— Tommy Maynard (@thetommymaynard) May 4, 2016
Steve Roberts—a complete stranger to me—replies to my tweet as he must follow the #AWS hashtag. The part that sticks out is that he wrote, “…Fixing…,” as if he was going to correct this difference. Hilarious, right?
@thetommymaynard oops, that was us trying to indicate it could take reservation collections as well as instance ids. Fixing…
— Steve Roberts (@bellevuesteve) May 5, 2016
Cut to just over 24 hours later and it’s fixed. I downloaded the newest version of the module, installed it, and tested it. It was fixed. The complimentary cmdlets now use the same, InstanceId parameter.
@thetommymaynard FYI, fix released in version 3.1.66.0 today.
— Steve Roberts (@bellevuesteve) May 6, 2016
Did that really just happen? For all I knew, this Steve guy was messing with me, but no, my Tweet really did initiate a (very minor) fix included in the newest version of the AWSPowerShell module. That’s a first. Well, I’ve found a new problem. Maybe I can get that one fixed, too. I’ll be writing about that in an upcoming post and will link it from here, as soon as it’s complete.