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[Tom Fifield <fifieldt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Speaking as someone who's deployed OpenStack and had a lot of fun with 
the negation, I agree with you on Format #1, especially as the 'default 
value' can be made clearer.

Regards,

Tom

On 06/01/2012 02:18 AM, Lorin Hochstein wrote:
> The config files (helpfully?) support two different formats for
> specifying boolean flags:
>
>
> Format 1:
>
> force_dhcpelease=True
> force_dhcpelease=False
>
>
> Format 2:
>
> force_dhcpelease
> noforce_dhcpelease
>
>
> I think we should standardize on one of these conventions for the docs
> (with a note in the docs about the alternate construction).
>
> I vote for the =True/False because it's more explicit and consistent
> with the other flags.
>
> Take care,
>
> Lorin
> --
> Lorin Hochstein
> Lead Architect - Cloud Services
> Nimbis Services, Inc.
> www.nimbisservices.com <https://www.nimbisservices.com/>