Stabilize configuration options

[gmourier]

Hello everyone 👋

We want to stabilize the different Meilisearch configuration options before v1.0.

We would like to collect pain points about any of the configuration options that exist today within this discussion. It could be an insufficient or misleading naming/behaviors you want to point out.

How to give feedback?

Please create a new dedicated product discussion if you have any feedback regarding that prior subject, ideally linking this discussion to the newly created one. It will be easier for everyone to focus on each different potential topic that could emanate.

Also, give your opinion on the already created ones, even if it's not already present in the Follow the work section below!

Which feedback?

It could be about naming, error message, or any kind of behavior.
We will prioritize changes that would involve a breaking change in the future, I mean, new features will not be prioritized here.
Also, you have to know we plan to create a fresh new CLI in the future, but it will not be for v1. We want to keep the structure of the current CLI we have.

Follow the work

Current considered topics

These topics are in discussion; please give your feedback in the related discussions:

• Move some debug logging to trace level #570

Topics that will be worked on

• Add support for a config file #85 -> ✅ in v0.30.0
• Update the "internal" CLI Meilisearch documentation meilisearch#2810 -> ✅ in v0.30.0
• Improve missing master key error #565 -> ✅ v1.0.0
• Rename the `--dumps-dir` CLI options #560 -> ✅ v1.0.0
• Merge snapshot related CLI options/flags #566 -> ✅ v1.0.0
• Avoid weak master key #538 -> ✅ v1.0.0
• Rework error message when wrong database version? #572 -> ✅ v1.0.0
• `--max-index-size` and `--max-task-db-size` are not practical #567 -> ✅ v1.0.0

Not-implemented topics

It does not mean the following topics will not be implemented forever but won't be v1.0

• Improve cli for managing dumps #396 -> reconsidered for a fresh new version of the CLI in the future

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Thanks in advance for your help and your participation! For any hesitation, please ask for help here!

[gmourier]

Locking that discussion since configuration options have been stabilized for a v1.0.

Please open a new discussion if an existent conf option could be enhanced!

Thanks!