I was trying to get things organized more like the other projects and used nova as my pattern, and they just provide a nova.conf.sample for the main config. (And actually we did something similar with the classic cloud stuff.) There were a couple of reasons for it - to help keep from accidentally overwriting an existing config with the generic, and to emphasize on initial install that the user needs to update it for their particular system. Tho looking now I see that glance does provide a .conf. So is there an expected standard pattern for this?