[spambayes-dev] Exposing experimental options

Tony Meyer tameyer at ihug.co.nz
Mon Jan 26 17:48:55 EST 2004


> The config page currently shows the "Advanced Configuration" 
> button that gets you to these settings.  What if we added 
> another button "Experimental Configuration" that would give 
> you a similar page to set the experimental options.

Hmm.  I quite like this option, since we could also have a blurb explaining
that the options were experimental and what that meant at the top.  Maybe
even a request for people to report back what they experiences with them
were.  It shouldn't be all that much code, either (if we do go this way, I'm
happy to write it up, since it's basically just the same as when I added the
advanced page).

> The options shown could be controlled by a map exp_map separate 
> from adv_map, and if the exp_map is empty then we wouldn't 
> show the "Experimental Configuration" button.

We wouldn't even have to have another map if we were happy to just show all
the experimental options (which I think is best).  Just automatically
include them all, which also means no need to maintain the list as
experimental options come and go.  (Well, in a simple form this would also
include deprecated options, but I don't see any problem with including those
as well).

=Tony Meyer




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