Zed, I totally get what you're saying. I do think ninjas exist in larger teams, but maybe that's not a mongrel2 priority, which would make sense. The bit that

Zed, I totally get what you're saying. I do think ninjas exist in larger teams, but maybe that's not a mongrel2 priority, which would make sense. The bit that gets me that I think some take issue with is that there's a human readable representation of the configuration that does not actually represent the configuration . Except when it does, sometimes. Even usually. But there's no guarantee. Not saying your decision is wrong (any more than "language x os wrong", but it's a reason why some people may not like it. I almost wonder sometimes if the configuration should be solely accessible through an http API, just to shut people up. ;)