Hello
I maintain a plugin that - nasty, nasty - still stores its configuration parameters into the global $CFG object, rather than into the config_plugins table. It's been doing so since pre-1.9 times, and I thought it might be about time to upgrade to the new API now. (But then, the core mod_chat still uses $CFG for its configuration parameters as well.)
To that end, according to the plugin contribution checklist, I should call my settings "plugintype_pluginname/settingname", thus in my case, e.g., "mod_scheduler/maxstudentsperslot". On the other hand, by the exampe in the dev docs, the core quiz module uses e.g. "quiz/timelimit" (not "mod_quiz/timelimit"). Looking at the config_plugins table in my test installation, I see in fact that those settings are stored with "plugin = 'quiz' "; except, however, the setting "version" which is stored with "plugin = 'mod_quiz' " instead.
I understand that the conventions are a bit inconsistent here for historical reasons; but: which convention should I follow? And do you think it's worth migrating these parts of my plugin code at all?