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Hi Mark,

"Mark McLoughlin" <markmc at redhat.com> wrote:
> On Wed, 2013-03-27 at 09:51 -0400, Julie Pichon wrote:
> > Hi all,
> > 
> > I'm currently looking into bug 1157950 [0] for Horizon, which is about
> > adding support for the new fixed_ips quota. The fix depends on a
> > recent version of the Nova client (2.12.0) and I'm wondering about the
> > impact of having to update pip-requires when backporting it to Folsom.
> > Would increasing the nova client required version cause trouble for
> > the distributions packaging openstack? Without stable branches for the
> > clients I'm not sure what other solution there is. Any thought/best
> > practice?
> 
> Without thinking about it in too much detail, I think I'd err on the
> side of not requiring newer clients on the stable branch.
> 
> In theory, the client APIs aren't supposed to change but the risk of
> regressions in newer versions is probably enough for some users or
> distros to want to stick with an older version.
> 
> i.e. requiring newer clients generally might make the stable branch less
> of a "safe source of bugfixes" if the client updates are themselves
> "safe"
> 
> That said, if the bug was serious enough ... the risk of a newer client
> might be worth it.

Thanks for the input. That makes sense.

> Is there any way Horizon could use the newer version if its available,
> but still work with the older version?

We could, though it would be a bit awkward.

Although the underlying bug is serious, perhaps in this case the backport is not as worthwhile, since this is an admin-only function and the command-line tool can be used to set the quotas.

Thanks,

Julie