John Stilley

@albeanth This PR is almost a year old now. What is its status?

I have no problem with the idea behind this PR. But it is a year old now, and feels abandoned. Please bring this PR back the _moment_ you are willing...

It's an interesting idea. I haven't been able to look into this yet. We need the change to be optional/backwards compatible, that's important. And changes to the accepted blueprints format...

`yamlize` doesn't directly support this. It only supports the original "list type" of formatting YAML data. I have been looking at if it will be easier to add this feature...

One interesting point is that YAML, as a whole, will never write out a file with custom whitespace like that. So even if we can allow such files as input,...

Okay, we just had a meeting on this ticket, let me summarize. I certainly like the idea, and will try to find a way to make it happen. ## Cons...

I would love a working toy example of this.

**Fun Fact**: I built some tooling so that you can force a log line to only ever be printed the first time, and not repeatedly: https://github.com/terrapower/armi/blob/d3889e0163c5d31515c29a7f659d52470be2dbe3/armi/runLog.py#L509 We use it in...

@albeanth This ticket is still assigned to you. That's cool with me, but if you aren't planning on working on it, please un-assign it. (You are not being singled out,...

Well, it doesn't belong in a unit test file, that's for sure. And since it's not used in ARMI, perhaps it belongs in some other repo? Just spit-balling.