Automated backport of #1298: Replace slash with dot in ConfigMap keys for K8s compliance

[tpantelis]

Backport of #1298 on release-0.20.

#1298: Replace slash with dot in ConfigMap keys for K8s compliance

For details on the backport process, see the backport requests page.

Summary by CodeRabbit

• Bug Fixes
  • Updated config map data key formatting to use dot separators instead of slash separators for improved consistency and readability.

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🤖 Created branch: z_pr1301/tpantelis/automated-backport-of-#1298-upstream-release-0.20

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Reviewing files that changed from the base of the PR and between 266b9b8 and 570e6bf.

📒 Files selected for processing (1)

• pkg/workqueue/config.go

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Walkthrough

The ToConfigMapDataKey function in pkg/workqueue/config.go is updated to construct config map data keys using dot separators (.) instead of slash separators (/) when combining prefix and name values.

Changes

Cohort / File(s)	Summary
Key Format Update pkg/workqueue/config.go	Changed ToConfigMapDataKey function to use dot separator instead of slash when formatting config map data keys.

Estimated code review effort

🎯 1 (Trivial) | ⏱️ ~3 minutes

Possibly related PRs

• Change convention of using slash to dot to comply with ConfigMap regex #1297: Makes the same code-level change of replacing slash-delimited config keys with dot-delimited keys in the ToConfigMapDataKey function.

Suggested reviewers

• vthapar
• sridhargaddam
• Oats87

🚥 Pre-merge checks | ✅ 3

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Title check	✅ Passed	The title clearly and specifically describes the main change: replacing slashes with dots in ConfigMap keys for Kubernetes compliance, and indicates it is a backport of PR #1298.
Actionable Comments Resolved	✅ Passed	All actionable comments are resolved. No TODO, FIXME, HACK markers found in code and no human reviewer comments requiring action present.

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🤖 Closed branches: [z_pr1301/tpantelis/automated-backport-of-#1298-upstream-release-0.20]