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A question asks to have a Samba configuration file reviewed. Do we consider a configuration file to be code? It's certainly not a Turing-complete language. Is Turing completeness a defining criterion?

Note that we can address many of our usual concerns, such as security, correctness in unexpected cases, formatting, comments, etc.

We already have many questions, most (all?) of which deal with mod_rewrite rulesets. We clearly haven't objected to those questions. But would we allow files that are not mod_rewrite rulesets? (If not, then the programming language is really [mod_rewrite] rather than .)

Where do we draw the line?

A question asks to have a Samba configuration file reviewed. Do we consider a configuration file to be code? It's certainly not a Turing-complete language. Is Turing completeness a defining criterion?

Note that we can address many of our usual concerns, such as security, correctness in unexpected cases, formatting, comments, etc.

We already have many questions, most (all?) of which deal with mod_rewrite rulesets. We clearly haven't objected to those questions.

Where do we draw the line?

A question asks to have a Samba configuration file reviewed. Do we consider a configuration file to be code? It's certainly not a Turing-complete language. Is Turing completeness a defining criterion?

Note that we can address many of our usual concerns, such as security, correctness in unexpected cases, formatting, comments, etc.

We already have many questions, most (all?) of which deal with mod_rewrite rulesets. We clearly haven't objected to those questions. But would we allow files that are not mod_rewrite rulesets? (If not, then the programming language is really [mod_rewrite] rather than .)

Where do we draw the line?

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A question asks to have a Samba configuration fileSamba configuration file reviewed. Do we consider a configuration file to be code? It's certainly not a Turing-complete language. Is Turing completeness a defining criterion?

Note that we can address many of our usual concerns, such as security, correctness in unexpected cases, formatting, comments, etc.

We already have many questions, most (all?) of which deal with mod_rewrite rulesets. We clearly haven't objected to those questions.

Where do we draw the line?

A question asks to have a Samba configuration file reviewed. Do we consider a configuration file to be code? It's certainly not a Turing-complete language. Is Turing completeness a defining criterion?

Note that we can address many of our usual concerns, such as security, correctness in unexpected cases, formatting, comments, etc.

We already have many questions, most (all?) of which deal with mod_rewrite rulesets. We clearly haven't objected to those questions.

Where do we draw the line?

A question asks to have a Samba configuration file reviewed. Do we consider a configuration file to be code? It's certainly not a Turing-complete language. Is Turing completeness a defining criterion?

Note that we can address many of our usual concerns, such as security, correctness in unexpected cases, formatting, comments, etc.

We already have many questions, most (all?) of which deal with mod_rewrite rulesets. We clearly haven't objected to those questions.

Where do we draw the line?

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Do configuration files constitute reviewable code?

A question asks to have a Samba configuration file reviewed. Do we consider a configuration file to be code? It's certainly not a Turing-complete language. Is Turing completeness a defining criterion?

Note that we can address many of our usual concerns, such as security, correctness in unexpected cases, formatting, comments, etc.

We already have many questions, most (all?) of which deal with mod_rewrite rulesets. We clearly haven't objected to those questions.

Where do we draw the line?