Woah, this is pretty funky sounding. Is this true still? This block of code is commented out in funfactory and it looks like it always has been:

https://github.com/mozilla/funfactory/blob/master/funfactory/settings_base.py#L245

https://github.com/mozilla/funfactory/commit/40dbdb04fb7c86b4b66934ff43d41f1c9de8e1f4#diff-a57f97ee13b68453f68774c9c0759437R155