Re: [openstack-dev] [TripleO] Backwards compatibility policy for our projects

2014-06-19 Thread Giulio Fidente
On 06/16/2014 10:06 PM, James Slagle wrote: On Mon, Jun 16, 2014 at 12:19 PM, Tomas Sedovic tsedo...@redhat.com wrote: If we do promise backwards compatibility, we should document it somewhere and if we don't we should probably make that more visible, too, so people know what to expect. I

Re: [openstack-dev] [TripleO] Backwards compatibility policy for our projects

2014-06-19 Thread Duncan Thomas
On 19 June 2014 10:01, Giulio Fidente gfide...@redhat.com wrote: From a the 10.000 feet view, I can imagine people relying on a stable API for services like Cinder but I don't see how that applies to TripleO Why should one try to install an older version of OpenStack using some 'recent'

Re: [openstack-dev] [TripleO] Backwards compatibility policy for our projects

2014-06-17 Thread Tomas Sedovic
On 16/06/14 18:51, Clint Byrum wrote: Excerpts from Tomas Sedovic's message of 2014-06-16 09:19:40 -0700: All, After having proposed some changes[1][2] to tripleo-heat-templates[3], reviewers suggested adding a deprecation period for the merge.py script. While TripleO is an official

Re: [openstack-dev] [TripleO] Backwards compatibility policy for our projects

2014-06-17 Thread Clint Byrum
Excerpts from Tomas Sedovic's message of 2014-06-17 04:56:24 -0700: On 16/06/14 18:51, Clint Byrum wrote: Excerpts from Tomas Sedovic's message of 2014-06-16 09:19:40 -0700: All, After having proposed some changes[1][2] to tripleo-heat-templates[3], reviewers suggested adding a

[openstack-dev] [TripleO] Backwards compatibility policy for our projects

2014-06-16 Thread Tomas Sedovic
All, After having proposed some changes[1][2] to tripleo-heat-templates[3], reviewers suggested adding a deprecation period for the merge.py script. While TripleO is an official OpenStack program, none of the projects under its umbrella (including tripleo-heat-templates) have gone through

Re: [openstack-dev] [TripleO] Backwards compatibility policy for our projects

2014-06-16 Thread Jason Rist
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Mon 16 Jun 2014 10:19:40 AM MDT, Tomas Sedovic wrote: All, After having proposed some changes[1][2] to tripleo-heat-templates[3], reviewers suggested adding a deprecation period for the merge.py script. While TripleO is an official

Re: [openstack-dev] [TripleO] Backwards compatibility policy for our projects

2014-06-16 Thread Duncan Thomas
On 16 June 2014 17:30, Jason Rist jr...@redhat.com wrote: I'm going to have to agree with Tomas here. There doesn't seem to be any reasonable expectation of backwards compatibility for the reasons he outlined, despite some downstream releases that may be impacted. Backward compatibility is a

Re: [openstack-dev] [TripleO] Backwards compatibility policy for our projects

2014-06-16 Thread Arkady_Kanevsky
] Backwards compatibility policy for our projects On 16 June 2014 17:30, Jason Rist jr...@redhat.com wrote: I'm going to have to agree with Tomas here. There doesn't seem to be any reasonable expectation of backwards compatibility for the reasons he outlined, despite some downstream releases

Re: [openstack-dev] [TripleO] Backwards compatibility policy for our projects

2014-06-16 Thread Clint Byrum
Excerpts from Tomas Sedovic's message of 2014-06-16 09:19:40 -0700: All, After having proposed some changes[1][2] to tripleo-heat-templates[3], reviewers suggested adding a deprecation period for the merge.py script. While TripleO is an official OpenStack program, none of the projects

Re: [openstack-dev] [TripleO] Backwards compatibility policy for our projects

2014-06-16 Thread Clint Byrum
Excerpts from Duncan Thomas's message of 2014-06-16 09:41:49 -0700: On 16 June 2014 17:30, Jason Rist jr...@redhat.com wrote: I'm going to have to agree with Tomas here. There doesn't seem to be any reasonable expectation of backwards compatibility for the reasons he outlined, despite some

Re: [openstack-dev] [TripleO] Backwards compatibility policy for our projects

2014-06-16 Thread Duncan Thomas
Hi Clint This looks like a special pleading here - all OpenStack projects (or 'program' if you prefer - I'm honestly not seeing a difference) have bits that they've written quickly and would rather not have to maintain, but in order to allow people to make use of them downstream have to do that

Re: [openstack-dev] [TripleO] Backwards compatibility policy for our projects

2014-06-16 Thread Clint Byrum
Excerpts from Duncan Thomas's message of 2014-06-16 10:46:12 -0700: Hi Clint This looks like a special pleading here - all OpenStack projects (or 'program' if you prefer - I'm honestly not seeing a difference) have bits that they've written quickly and would rather not have to maintain, but

Re: [openstack-dev] [TripleO] Backwards compatibility policy for our projects

2014-06-16 Thread James Slagle
On Mon, Jun 16, 2014 at 12:19 PM, Tomas Sedovic tsedo...@redhat.com wrote: All, After having proposed some changes[1][2] to tripleo-heat-templates[3], reviewers suggested adding a deprecation period for the merge.py script. While TripleO is an official OpenStack program, none of the projects