#3142 docs: Clarify what a setting is vs what a config is Issue created by MeltyBot Migrated from GitLab: https://gitlab.com/meltano/meltano/-/issues/3216 Originally created by @tayloramurphy on 2022-02-04 194812 --- From https://gitlab.com/meltano/meltano/-/issues/3211 and private Slack thread https://meltano.slack.com/archives/C02MBDUHCCD/p1643827549868919:

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Settings are specified as part of plugin definitions for the purposes of discovery. Config is the mechanism by which the fields described as settings are populated with values. Whilst

settings

usually only appear in

discovery.yml

, custom plugins added in

meltano.yml

places

settings

and

config

in the same view.

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