YAML To The Rescue?

Here at work, we have been run­ning into a lot of issues syn­chro­niz­ing the default con­fig­u­ra­tions pro­vid­ed by the devel­op­ers with those that have been pro­vid­ed by the team respon­si­ble for pack­ag­ing releas­es. The sys­tem as it is right now is, how shall we say, clunky, at best, requir­ing the devel­op­ers to go back and recon­fig­ure new fea­tures mul­ti­ple times through­out an iter­a­tion, often every evening before the night­ly build. This sim­ply will not stand. 

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