On Fri, 21 Feb 2014 06:53:11 +0000
Kenichi Oomichi <oomi...@mxs.nes.nec.co.jp> wrote:

> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Christopher Yeoh [mailto:cbky...@gmail.com]
> > Sent: Thursday, February 20, 2014 11:44 AM
> > To: openstack-dev@lists.openstack.org
> > Subject: Re: [openstack-dev] [Nova] v3 API in Icehouse
> > 
> > On Wed, 19 Feb 2014 12:36:46 -0500
> > Russell Bryant <rbry...@redhat.com> wrote:
> > 
> > > Greetings,
> > >
> > > The v3 API effort has been going for a few release cycles now.
> > > As we approach the Icehouse release, we are faced with the
> > > following question: "Is it time to mark v3 stable?"
> > >
> > > My opinion is that I think we need to leave v3 marked as
> > > experimental for Icehouse.
> > >
> > 
> > Although I'm very eager to get the V3 API released, I do agree with
> > you. As you have said we will be living with both the V2 and V3
> > APIs for a very long time. And at this point there would be simply
> > too many last minute changes to the V3 API for us to be confident
> > that we have it right "enough" to release as a stable API.
> 
> Through v3 API development, we have found a lot of the existing v2 API
> input validation problems. but we have concentrated v3 API development
> without fixing the problems of v2 API.
> 
> After Icehouse release, v2 API would be still CURRENT and v3 API would
> be EXPERIMENTAL. So should we fix v2 API problems also in the
> remaining Icehouse cycle?
> 

So bug fixes are certainly fine with the usual caveats around backwards
compatibility (I think there's a few in there that aren't
backwards compatible especially those that fall into the category of
making the API more consistent).

https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/APIChangeGuidelines

Chris

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