profile_options and choices are always sorted

[baryluk]

I would like to lists options and choices in the same order I specified them in config.
But they appears to be sorted instead.

It looks that maybe this is issue on helm chart side, as at the end jinja template lists items without any sorting, so they should be essentially in the same order as they are parsed.

i.e. in my hr-jupyter.yaml under values profileList in one profile profile_options and there also in choices, they are all ordered manually. But in actual running pod of hub in /usr/local/etc/jupyterhub/secret/values.yaml I see them sorted alphabetically.

Using jupyterhub chart version 3.1.0 from jupyter

[I 2025-07-04 18:13:52.276 JupyterHub app:2859] Running JupyterHub version 4.0.2
[I 2025-07-04 18:13:52.276 JupyterHub app:2889] Using Authenticator: oauthenticator.google.GoogleOAuthenticator-16.1.0
[I 2025-07-04 18:13:52.276 JupyterHub app:2889] Using Spawner: kubespawner.spawner.KubeSpawner-6.1.0
[I 2025-07-04 18:13:52.276 JupyterHub app:2889] Using Proxy: jupyterhub.proxy.ConfigurableHTTPProxy-4.0.2

[baryluk]

It might be tricky to solve on helm chart side, as helm and helm chart use Go templating, and Go dicts iteration is randomized, so only way to make them consistent is sort the keys before processing in the template. The insert order is lost.

As a workaround maybe an index: INT in each profile option, and choice, would be an option. Or as even weirder way manually prepend some numbers, to force order.