Re: [extremeprogramming] About placing configuration defaults

It would never occur to me to organize the defaults differently than I
would organize the editable configurations.  Why would I want to impose a
different structure on the programmers and the maintainers, unless the
maintainers were going to use an interface such as a rules engine)

On Tue, Nov 19, 2019 at 12:10 PM Avi Kessner <[email protected]> wrote:

> Only programmers working on the code need to know where defaults are
> stored.
> I understood the question to be about the defaults, i.e. no value is set,
> rather than about the location of the configuration data itself.
>
> On Tue, Nov 19, 2019, 18:35 Steve Gordon <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> Avi,
>>
>> Should we really require the customer to have enough insight into the
>> internal object architecture of the software to be able to guess where a
>> particular configuration choice is stored?
>>
>> On Tue, Nov 19, 2019 at 8:25 AM Avi Kessner <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>>> My understanding is that the defaults should be placed closest to where
>>> these things change.
>>>
>>> Some defaults should be at the top level, especially defaults related to
>>> the environment. (base urls, api keys etc)
>>> Some defaults should be placed where the configuration is being
>>> requested, especially arguments that are passed in at runtime. (test file
>>> name, number of interactions, other optional args you might have)
>>> Wherever someone might be interested in what the default is, try to have
>>> them searching for it as little as possible.
>>>
>>> The less often the value of the config is likely to change, the "higher
>>> up", I think it should be.
>>>
>>> brought to you by the letters A, V, and I
>>> and the number 47
>>>
>>>
>>> _._,_
>>>
>>> 
>
>

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