On Wednesday, November 26, 2014 12:03:09 PM UTC-6, Rob Reynolds wrote:
> Making a switch to non-authoritative would be in the realm of possibility > for Puppet 4 given the short timeline. I think the group_membership > resource type could be something that could be done at any time, and then > the other properties deprecated and removed by Puppet 5 or 6. Given that > the group_membership is a bit larger and would need more time for > deprecations, I'd like to bring this back to just the non-authoritative. > > Would it be a beneficial switch to move to non-authoritative? > Pretty much any change to existing behavior will have negative consequences for somebody. This one will have no negative consequences for *me*, however, and I think non-authoritative would have been a better default from the beginning. When it surprises someone, the surprise behavior is less likely to take the form of damage. I'm inclined to call the change a win, but it costs me nothing. John -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Puppet Developers" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to puppet-dev+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/puppet-dev/8dea3e84-a55c-4d36-83d3-0c0eeab2a117%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
