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On 03/05/2013 03:05 PM, Joe Gordon wrote:
> 
> On Mar 5, 2013 10:19 AM, "Alessandro Pilotti" <ap at pilotti.it
> <mailto:ap at pilotti.it>> 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  
> 
> +1

+1

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Russell Bryant