On Tue, Jan 03, 2012 at 05:58:16PM -0500, Paul Burba wrote: > Mike Pilato and I have been kicking around some ideas on server > dictated configuration recently and have put our thoughts into a wiki > (full disclosure: this wiki was initially based on Hyrum's thoughts on > the subject in > https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/subversion/trunk/notes/repos-dictated-config) > : > > http://wiki.apache.org/subversion/ServerDictatedConfiguration > > We're at a point where it's time to solicit some wider feedback, so > please have a look at the wiki and follow-up here with any concerns, > thoughts, suggestions, etc.. > > Paul
I did read it today and I like it. One open question for me was how do we treat invalid configuration options in the server-side configuration file? This is one of the possible failure modes the design should address. Say there is a syntax error in the configuration file which prevents us from parsing it. Do we alert the administrator? If so, how? Or will it fail silently? If the option name is valid but the option value is not, will the server still send the configuration option to the client? Will it send some default value instead of the invalid value? Or will it omit the option from the list of configuration options sent to the client?
