Is this a bug?

[markfaine]

Here is the command I'm running and the error I receive:

molecule init role nats.default.myrole --driver-name docker
CRITICAL Outside collections you must mention role namespace like: molecule init role 'acme.myrole'. 
Be sure you use only lowercase characters and underlines.
See https://galaxy.ansible.com/docs/contributing/creating_role.html

This is outside of the collection, it seems to work fine inside of the collection.

[gardar]

I don't think you can use additional dots in the name of a role, the dot is to be used to separate the namespace and the role.
You need to use .

[markfaine]

Sure, not in the name of the role, but the name of the role in my example is myrole the part before that is referencing the namespace of myrole, even the error message includes 'acme.myrole' indicating that you can include the namespace, it's just that apparently it will only accept one segment of the namespace, however namespaces can obviously be longer than one segment.

[markfaine]

Looking at it again, perhaps it's because I didn't wrap it in single quotes, I'll try that and see if that solves the problem.