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On 07/23/2012 10:30 AM, Sean Dague wrote:
> This kind of change is more breaking than you think. I've seen a lot of
> web services client code over the years that just does (code == 200) as
> short hand for success. Is it the right thing to do? nope. But it worked
> for people, so is going to be seen as a breaking change by us.
> 
> Given that OS API is an external API, I think question 3 is kind of
> irrelevant. We can't assume we know which clients are using it.

Right.

>> Also, the "we must maintain compat" is inconsistent with other similar
>> changes like this one merged on Friday:
>>
>>    https://review.openstack.org/#/c/9993/
> 
> Maybe we need to revisit that?

:( Wish I had caught that. That would fall under the category of
breaking API changes in my book -- though luckily only limited to one
extension.

> API uptake only happens if people's code using it doesn't break for
> reasons they don't understand.

Exactly.

-jay