Arun Donti

> Yes, this is a way to get around using the suppression system. But with the intent to only do so during "development phase", with a later "production phase" that...

I mainly have two concerns with this 1. This de-syncs the output in the console and the what is generated in reports 2. This makes it trivial for users to...

> Perhaps using a [LoggingTarget pattern](https://github.com/winstonjs/winston) would be better for this I think the Target Pattern may be excessive in this case and doesn't feel like it would be a...

Hey! Can you describe the use case more in depth? Why add a `metadata` field instead of using something like the `explanation` or `info` fields?

Seems like a good feature to have! Happy to take a PR

@JeremyJonas , I really like this idea and I think we should implement it! I have a few suggestions that I think we can work out over the course of...

> I think we should mark this is a breaking change, since it will break any user created packs that are currently using any of the exported rules On second...

[CloudFormation uses java.util.regex.Pattern](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSCloudFormation/latest/UserGuide/cfn-regexes.html) for regex parsing. There will be some cases where the regex expressions do not evaluate to the same thing in Python in Java (which does not matter...

Anything need to be changed here?

It would be nice to have some default rules in `cfn-guard` that relate to unsupported attributes to use with `cfn-lint` as well for a more complete checking experience For example...