Need a inline clarification. On 4/6/16 10:58 AM, Flavio Percoco wrote: > On 06/04/16 08:26 -0400, Sean Dague wrote: >> On 04/06/2016 04:13 AM, Markus Zoeller wrote: >>> +1 for deprecation and removal >>> >>> To be honest, when I started with Nova during Kilo, I didn't get >>> why we have those passthrough APIs. They looked like convenience APIs. >>> A short history lesson, why they got introduced, would be cool. I only >>> found commit [1] which looks like they were there from the beginning. >>> >>> References: >>> [1] >>> https://github.com/openstack/python-novaclient/commit/7304ed80df265b3b11a0018a826ce2e38c052572#diff-56f10b3a40a197d5691da75c2b847d31R33 >>> >> >> The short history lesson is nova image API existed before glance. Glance >> was a spin out from Nova of that API. Doing so doesn't immediately make >> that API go away however. Especially as all these things live on >> different ports with different end points. So the image API remained as >> a proxy (as did volumes, baremetal, and even to some extend networks). >> >> It's not super clear how you deprecate and remove these things without >> breaking a lot of people, as a lot of the libraries implement the nova >> image resources - >> https://github.com/fog/fog-openstack/blob/master/lib/fog/openstack/compute.rb >> > > We can deprecate it without removing it. We make it work with v2 and > start > warning people that the API is not supported anymore. We don't fix > bugs in that > API but tell people to use the newer version. > > I think that should do it, unless I'm missing something. > Flavio >
Is it a safe practice to not fix bugs on a publicly exposed API? What are the recommendations for such cases? >> >> -Sean >> >> -- >> Sean Dague >> http://dague.net >> >> __________________________________________________________________________ >> >> OpenStack Development Mailing List (not for usage questions) >> Unsubscribe: >> openstack-dev-requ...@lists.openstack.org?subject:unsubscribe >> http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openstack-dev > > > > __________________________________________________________________________ > OpenStack Development Mailing List (not for usage questions) > Unsubscribe: openstack-dev-requ...@lists.openstack.org?subject:unsubscribe > http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openstack-dev -- Thanks, Nikhil
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