[PATCH 2 of 3] configitems: use codemod script to register coreconfigitems

[Martin von Zweigbergk]

On Fri, Jul 14, 2017 at 11:59 AM, Augie Fackler <raf at durin42.com> wrote:
>
>> On Jul 14, 2017, at 14:58, Jun Wu <quark at fb.com> wrote:
>>
>> Excerpts from Augie Fackler's message of 2017-07-14 14:39:17 -0400:
>>> Urg. This is kind of unreviewable, because it's gathering configitems
>>> from everywhere and splatting them in one big file, so it's hard to
>>> audit defaults etc.
>>
>> Why is audit needed if defaults are written by code, not human?
>
> Because I'd like to actually read through things and make sure it's behaving sensibly.
>
>>
>>> Could we maybe migrate one file's config items at a time to
>>> configitems.py? I know it'd be a huge series, but I could rip through
>>> that extremely quickly via mail, whereas this big hairball is going to
>>> be very hard to check.
>>
>> Per file is not a good idea, since if two files have "config('a', 'b',
>> 'c')", they need to be changed in a single patch.
>
> Could we break it down by config section or something then?

I'm fine with it being a single patch. I prefer that to 130 patches
actually. But that's because it's generated, not otherwise. I did some
spot-checking and it all looked correct. Okay if I queue a V2 that
includes the script in the message, Augie?


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