Folks,<div><br></div><div>I appreciate that there is a strong awareness within the dev community to ensure that OpenStack gets easier and easier to be deployed, upgraded and maintained, however I would like to invite core reviewers to think (even) harder about the implications that changes to config files may have for the poor sysadmin guy who has the job of running OpenStack-based clouds (or packagers for that matter).</div>
<div><br></div><div>I don't want to pick up on any specific committer/reviewer, but review [1] got me thinking on how patches that tweak configuration files are taken somewhat lightly. The particular change in question has not only implications on how devstack generates these files (and I don't see any devstack patch counter-part currently in review, or being merged to deal with the Neutron change - apology if there is but I couldn't find it), but also implications for Puppet or Chef recipes that rely on config templates based on what etc folders of every project contain.</div>
<div><br></div><div>Luckily enough the implications in this specific case are innocuous, but I have personally gotten burnt too many times in the past on this very issue: config files are changed too often without thinking too hard to what it means for who needs to maintain instantiations of these files across multiple releases.</div>
<div><br></div><div>This is not meant to be rant, just a kind reminder :)</div><div><br></div><div>Many thanks,</div><div>Armando</div><div><br></div><div>[1] <a href="https://review.openstack.org/#/c/34515">https://review.openstack.org/#/c/34515</a></div>
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