reminder: undocumented options not allowed

Karolin Seeger kseeger at samba.org
Wed Oct 9 02:02:54 MDT 2013


Hi,

On Wed, Oct 09, 2013 at 09:48:22AM +0200, Björn JACKE wrote:
> after I just saw that we have a very usefull parameter
> 
> spoolss: architecture = ...
> 
> that not even most of the developers know about, I want to remind that we
> discussed and decided the policy that ALL new options (parametric or not) have
> to be documented in the man pages.
> 
> Also if there is not a reason to make an option parametric (like for vfs
> modules) then the option should be a real option, that is also printed out by
> testparm -v.
> 
> As a result of that policy, a review+ should NOT be granted if the
> corresponding man page entry is not added at the same time.

+1 !!!!!

Thanks for bringing this up again!

Cheers,
Karolin

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