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Jessica Mack, 06/23/2015 09:32 PM

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h1. Annotate config options
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h3. Summary
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Annotate config options in the code; auto-generate docs based on annotations
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h3. Owners
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* Danny Al-Gaaf (Deutsche Telekom AG)
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* Name (Affiliation)
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* Name
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h3. Interested Parties
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* Sage Weil (Inktank)
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* Name (Affiliation)
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* Name
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h3. Current Status
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Config options are enumerated in common/config_opts.h
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p(. name
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type
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default value
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Options are documented (sometimes) via source code comments
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Options are documented (sometimes) as rst.
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Docs and options are not in sync.
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Config options (values) can be dumped via the admin socket
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h3. Detailed Description
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Make the config options be defined *and* documented all in one place.
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Expand the current config option macro to include
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p(. description
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daemon types (common, mon, osd, client, librados, etc.); command separated list
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class (general, performance, debug, ...?)
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Make the admin socket dump those descriptions in json (or simiar)
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Autogenerate the .rst docs from that. 
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h3. Work items
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h4. Coding tasks
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# define daemon type keywords
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# define config option categories
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# config: expand the config macro
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# asok: make a config dump command that includes the descriptions
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# doc: make a simple tool that dumps the config options in rst
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## this should take a daemon type or list of types so that we can document 'radosgw options' that include rgw and common
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h4. Documentation tasks
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# replace existing docs with generated ones
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# ensure that the script to do this is in an easy to find location (ceph.git/admin?)
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h4. Pad
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http://pad.ceph.com/p/cdsgiant-annot...g-perfcounters