Mark McLoughlin wrote: > On Wed, 2013-06-19 at 10:20 +0200, Thierry Carrez wrote: >> I'd suggest to be a bit careful with that... It's a bit hard to tell >> whether it's being used, since some parties may take advantage of this >> plugin framework and we don't really know about them. >> >> Maybe ask about anyone using those on the general ML ? Can it be >> "deprecated" in Havana instead of removed ? > > Well, the implication of that would be oslo.messaging supporting an API > that we won't need in future. > > It's not totally clear what our level of support is for external plugins > like this is. Certainly the API extensions hooks in Nova aren't > something we've committed to maintaining API stability around. > > Which means that this interface is unstable. If you were using it in > Folsom or Grizzly, you have to be prepared for it to change in Havana. > > And the change isn't actually as big a deal as it sounds even for people > who may we using it - you just register your API extensions via the > osapi_compute_extension config option and your notification driver via > the notification_driver config option. There's a very clear migration > path.
Fair enough. I would still give a heads-up on the general list to give a chance to our massive plugin community to show up and complain... but I agree that it sounds like a good idea. -- Thierry Carrez (ttx) _______________________________________________ OpenStack-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openstack-dev
