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On Tue, 2013-03-05 at 20:16 +0200, Alessandro Pilotti wrote:
> Hi guys,
> 
> We recently moved the nova.conf Hyper-V options to a dedicated group
> and we ended up having different casings for the options group in Nova
> and Quantum, as section casing conventions differs between the
> projects. E.g.:
> 
> nova.conf:
> [hyperv]
> 
> quantum.conf:
> [HYPERV] 
> 
> This inconsistency can lead to a lot of issues from a user
> perspective, as it's quite difficult to troubleshoot this type of
> configuration file errors. IMHO a common convention should be decided
> and applied consistently across all OpenStack projects. Since the
> [DEFAULT] group is uppercase, I'd go with this casing, but anything
> else is fine as long as it is consistent.  
> 
> In a recent chat on the #openstack-nova channel, markmc proposed to do
> case insensitive group names matching, which IMO would be a perfect
> solution.
> This is also supported by the fact that historically sections (groups)
> names are case insensitive in the INI format used by OpenStack:
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/INI_file#Case_insensitivity  

I've registered this Havana blueprint:

https://blueprints.launchpad.net/oslo/+spec/cfg-lowercase-groups

Cheers,
Mark.