There is a guideline. See: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CHUKWA-112
Read conf-table-latest.doc for more information. User (non-developer) related configuration should have .template. Developer config file should not contain .template, i.e. chukwa-demux-conf.xml, and mdl.xml. Regards, Eric On 4/20/09 12:23 PM, "Jerome Boulon" <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > > Can we define some guideline on what should be named .template and what > shouldn't? > > chukwa-demux-conf.xml.template has been renamed to chukwa-demux-conf.xml > mdl.xml.template has been renamed to mdl.xml > > Both files contains information that can be removed/update by the end-user > to configure either Demux or DbLoader, for me those 2 files are config files > similar to hadoop-metrics.properties.template. So why renaming them? > > In my mind, everything that can be configured should be in a .template. > > A script to process all templates files and output the right configuration > file based on a property file could be created. > > Thanks, > Jerome. > >
