Re: [Openstack] documentation of flags, introducing of a naming convention for flags

2011-02-23 Thread Diego Parrilla SantamarĂ­a
I forgot to add something to my 'wishlist' ;-) Changing the way we configure Nova should be a process announced in advanced. One or two releases in advance, to give enough time to teams doing deployments and upgrades of Nova to be prepared. Changes that can impact in the upgrade of the product

Re: [Openstack] documentation of flags, introducing of a naming convention for flags

2011-02-22 Thread Thierry Carrez
Christian Berendt wrote: a) we should create a useful documentation including all flags That's been identified as a necessary area of improvement for doc. I plan to work on the raw info (organize them in themes and document their use) and Anne should help me get it into the openstack manual.

Re: [Openstack] documentation of flags, introducing of a naming convention for flags

2011-02-22 Thread Jay Pipes
can of worms Just use optparse/argparse. paste.deploy handles configuration files already, which is where most flags should really be... gflags adds unneeded complexity for no real gains, IMHO. Swift and Glance do just fine without gflags, as do the vast majority of Python projects. As for

Re: [Openstack] documentation of flags, introducing of a naming convention for flags

2011-02-22 Thread Anne Gentle
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Re: [Openstack] documentation of flags, introducing of a naming convention for flags

2011-02-22 Thread Andy Smith
A few points: (1) I agree with Todd and others that having flags localized to where they are used is good idea. (2) We should do some work to re-localize many of the flags, there has been a lot of kludge over time that just needs a little re-organization. This will solve the which flags are