> On Mar 1, 2017, at 12:32 AM, Shu Kit Chan <chanshu...@gmail.com> wrote: > > It looks like .luaconf is the winner. > > I will also be creating new issues for changing the existing > logging.config and metrics.config accordingly.
If we can support both the old and the new suffixes for a transition time (for metrics and logging) that'd be cool. Cheers, -- Leif > > Thanks. > > Kit > > >> On Mon, Feb 27, 2017 at 8:17 AM, Shu Kit Chan <chanshu...@gmail.com> wrote: >> The reasoning is like this. As we make more changes for other >> configuration files such as storage.config, cache.config, >> congestion.config, ... etc , it is more convenient for our users to >> keep the same name with a different suffix to signal the difference >> being made. >> >> And as we finalize on a suffix, we would also need to go back and >> change metrics.config and logging.config accordingly ( and of course >> we should support both naming convention for backward compatibility >> for 7.x for both) >> >> I am +1 on .luaconf >> >> >>> On Mon, Feb 27, 2017 at 7:32 AM, James Peach <jpe...@apache.org> wrote: >>> >>>> On Feb 26, 2017, at 10:35 PM, Shu Kit Chan <chanshu...@gmail.com> wrote: >>>> >>>> Hi, >>>> >>>> We had recently converted the the custom log and metrics configuration >>>> files to lua (in 7.0.0 and 6.2.0 release respectively). In doing so, >>>> we came up with new configuration file names as well. i.e >>>> logging.config and metrics.config , respectively. >>>> >>>> We are now trying to come up with a better suffix for these “lua" >>> >>> What’s wrong with the status quo? Can you please spell out some of the >>> reasoning behind this? >>> >>>> style configuration files as we are attempting to convert more >>>> configuration to this "lua" style. Here are a few suggestions from >>>> Leif. >>>> >>>> .cfg >>>> .conf >>>> .lua >>>> .luacfg >>>> .luaconf >>> >>> My 2c is either .config or .lua. >>> >>>> e.g. If we pick .lua as our suffix naming convention, we will be >>>> replacing functionality in storage.config with a "lua" style >>>> configuration file named as storage.lua >>>> >>>> Any other opinions here? >>>> >>>> Thanks. >>>> >>>> Kit >>>