Consider allowing to use .yaml instead of .yml as file extension

According to Wikipedia, the

… official recommended filename extension for YAML files has been .yaml since 2006.

Last time I checked, it was not possible to use .yml as file extension for the configuration file.

GitHub Actions allows to use .yaml files.

I’m aware that this is probably not a very important issue, and I’m aware that this might cause issues, such as

• what should be done when people provide both .github/settings.yml and .github/settings.yaml

but I’m a bit curious - have you considered allowing users to use .yaml as file extension?

💁‍♂ For reference, see https://github.com/probot/settings/issues/213.

[gr2m]

The current API requires the app developer to pass the file name, so it’s up to them. Probot supports both. Often times the app has read access to only one specific file, in which case we couldn’t just support both extensions, we would only have access to one of them.

I’d say we should close this

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