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All the things that you mention here seem to be technical difficulties. 
I don't think technical difficulties should drive the experience of the user.
Also, Zhi Yan seems to be able to make that happen :)

Thanks,
Arnaud

----- Original Message -----
From: "Julien Danjou" <julien at danjou.info>
To: "Arnaud Legendre" <alegendre at vmware.com>
Cc: "OpenStack Development Mailing List (not for usage questions)" <openstack-dev at lists.openstack.org>
Sent: Tuesday, June 17, 2014 8:43:38 AM
Subject: Re: [openstack-dev] [glance] Unifying configuration file

On Tue, Jun 17 2014, Arnaud Legendre wrote:

> @ZhiYan: I don't like the idea of removing the sample configuration file(s)
> from the git repository. Many people do not want to have to checkout the
> entire codebase and tox every time they have to verify a variable name in a
> configuration file. I know many people who were really frustrated where they
> realized that the sample config file was gone from the Nova repo.
> However, I agree with the fact that it would be better if the sample was
> 100% accurate: so the way I would love to see this working is to generate
> the sample file every time there is a config change (this being totally
> automated (maybe at the gate level...)).

You're a bit late on this. :)
So what I did these last months (year?) in several project, is to check
at gate time the configuration file that is automatically generated
against what's in the patches.
That turned out to be a real problem because sometimes some options
changes from the eternal module we rely on (e.g. keystone authtoken or
oslo.messaging). In the end many projects (like Nova) disabled this
check altogether, and therefore removed the generated configuration file
>From the git repository.

> @Julien: I would be interested to understand the value that you see of
> having only one config file? At this point, I don't see why managing one
> file is more complicated than managing several files especially when they
> are organized by categories. Also, scrolling through the registry settings
> every time I want to modify an api setting seem to add some overhead.

Because there's no way to automatically generate several configuration
files with each its own set of options using oslo.config.

Glance is (one of?) the last project in OpenStack to manually write its
sample configuration file, which are not up to date obviously.

So really this is mainly about following what every other projects did
the last year(s).

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Julien Danjou
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