Hi, Thanks for starting this discussion Ruby.
On Mon, May 16, 2016 at 2:57 PM, Loo, Ruby <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > > A patch to ironic-lib made me wonder about what is our supported usage of > ironic-lib. Or even the intent/scope of it. This patch changes a method, > ‘bootable’ parameter is removed and ‘boot_flag’ parameter is added [1]. > > If this library/method is used by some out-of-tree thing (or even some > in-tree but outside of ironic), this will be a breaking change. If this > library is meant to be internal to ironic program itself, and to e.g. only > be used by ironic and IPA, then that is different. I was under the > impression that it was a library and meant to be used by whatever, no > restrictions on what that whatever was. It would be WAY easier if we limited > this for usage by only a few specified projects. > > What do people think? > I still believe that the ironic-lib project was designed to share code between the Ironic projects _only_. Otherwise, if it the code was supposed to be shared across multiple projects we should have put it in oslo instead. The governance description is a bit vague [0], it does say: "A python library of common ironic utilities.". Does it include out-of-tree ironic-related code? I would like to think that it does not. The fact that ( IIRC ) we never stated that this is a public library, there's no documentation of any methods/modules there, no release notes, no sample usages, etc... Makes it a bit unsuitable for 3rd party consumption. That said, I'm not totally against make this library suitable for a broader usage but this will require more thoughts on it and effort. [0] https://github.com/openstack-infra/project-config/blob/920441f2fc02df896245b53e6f18b4ea6a0252a0/gerrit/projects.yaml#L2193 Cheers, Lucas __________________________________________________________________________ OpenStack Development Mailing List (not for usage questions) Unsubscribe: [email protected]?subject:unsubscribe http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openstack-dev
