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<span style="margin:0px">Dear OpenStack team,</span></p>
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I’m a Ph.D. student in software engineering at the ETS Montreal, <g class="gr_ gr_31 gr-alert gr_gramm gr_inline_cards gr_disable_anim_appear Grammar only-ins replaceWithoutSep" id="31" data-gr-id="31">
University</g> of Quebec working on the quality and configuration of web-based software systems.<br>
I’m particularly interested in analyzing configuration files from different OpenStack files. One of the main challenges I am currently facing is the proper identification of configuration files. I’m mostly confused between the python files used for production
and the python files used for configuration. I am kindly requesting your precious help with the following questions:</span></p>
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<span style="margin:0px">1- How to distinguish between python files used for configuration and python files used for production? It will be very helpful if there are some configuration-based patterns (eg, textual patterns or expressions) that we can find in
python files to help us distinguish between source code and configuration files?</span></p>
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<span style="margin:0px">2- Certain python files use the oslo_config to access and define configuration options. Could "all" these python files be considered as configuration files? For example, the following python file of the keystone project: keystone/keystone/conf/auth.py,
is it considered a source code or configuration file?</span></p>
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<span style="margin:0px">3- Why are there different source code and configuration repositories for OpenStack projects (eg, nova and puppet-nova)? For instance, does the OpenStack-nova service have some configuration files in its repository and have the puppet-nova
as a separate configuration repository as well?</span></p>
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Thank you very much in advance for your time and your help!<br>
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Kind regards,<br>
Narjes Bessghaier</span></p>
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