[Mantisbt-dev] config option names

[Julian F. <ju...@be...>]

I'm going to take this opportunity to raise this issue because I keep 
wondering about it.  Are we happy with the config variable names?

I realized that we don't want to rename them all if we can avoid it 
because it makes more work for people upgrading.  But maybe we should at 
least give it some thought.  There are at least 23 new config options 
since our last release and we are adding them at a fast rate.  We are 
moving towards having standard prefixes for api functions... should we 
try to do something similar for config options (at least for now ones)?

For example, relating to the bug reminder stuff, we now have:

bug_reminder_threshold
store_reminders
reminder_recipents_monitor_bug

We have both singular and plural forms of reminder.  In two cases we 
mention bugs, but not in the others.  The order is inconsistent.

Should we, for example have these names instead:

bug_reminder_send_threshold
bug_reminder_store (or bug_reminder_add_bugnote)
bug_reminder_recipients_monitor

It seems to me that something like this would make config options easier 
to find and easier to remember (I know I can never remember any of the 
names when people ask questions on IRC... I have to look them up every 
time).

But should we group all the thresholds together or group them with what 
they do?

Anyway, I think it would be worth discussing this.  Even if we don't 
want to change them all now or ever, we could at least try to make all 
the new ones we are adding follow some pattern.  Every time I create a 
new config option I have no idea what to call it.  And I think everyone 
else does the same.  They just make something up and commit it.

Julian
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