Rahul Sundaram wrote:
Stuart Ellis wrote:
On Thu, 2006-01-05 at 18:47 +0530, Rahul Sundaram wrote:
Hi
It seems that several configuration files in Fedora does not include
helpful comments as necessary to guide users on where to look for
information or which formats to follow. The crontab files could have
a initial commented line specifying the format or hosts file could
refer people to its man page for examples. Would the documentation
team be willing to file bug reports with comments/content as
appropriate?
Do we need such guidelines as inclusion/release criteria?
I think that it would be a good policy for those configuration files
that are written by Red Hat or Fedora developers
(e.g. /etc/sysconfig/*, /etc/httpd/conf.d/*), even if it's just a bit of
boilerplate text that identifies the file as a custom item and provides
a reference for more information.
Where configuration files are supplied by upstream as part of the
software, it may be that tweaking them would be felt to be against the
general use-upstream-defaults policy. That's probably something that
would need discussion on development or maintainer lists to work out.
(CCing fedora-devel list)
Might patch these as appropriate and send these upstream as required if
agreed upon as a general policy.
+1
a textbook case is /etc/cpuspeed.conf
The shipped conf file is the only "documentation" of the package. The
various options are not documented anywhere else. And the comments in
the conf file itself are somehow lacking
Regards,
--
Nicolas Mailhot
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