[openstack-dev] [nova] why are we backporting low priority v3 api fixes to v2?

Joe Gordon joe.gordon0 at gmail.com
Mon Dec 2 14:27:12 UTC 2013


On Sat, Nov 30, 2013 at 2:25 PM, Christopher Yeoh <cbkyeoh at gmail.com> wrote:

>
> On Sun, Dec 1, 2013 at 8:02 AM, Matt Riedemann <mriedem at linux.vnet.ibm.com
> > wrote:
>
>> I've seen a few bugs/reviews like this [1] lately which are essentially
>> backporting fixes from the nova openstack v3 API to the v2 API. While this
>> is goodness for the v2 API, I'm not sure why we're spending time on low
>> priority bug fixes like this for the v2 API when v3 is the future.
>> Shouldn't only high impact / high probability fixes get backported to the
>> nova v2 API now?  I think most people are still using v2 so they are
>> probably happy to get the fixes, but it kind of seems to prolong the
>> inevitable.
>>
>> Am I missing something?
>>
>>
> The V2 API is going to be with us for quite a while even if the as planned
> V3 API becomes official with
> the icehouse release. At the moment the V2 API is still even open for new
> features - this will probably
> change at the end of I-2.
>
> I agree those bugs are quite low priority fixes and the V3 work is a lot
> more important, but I don't think we should blocking
> them yet. We should perhaps reconsider the acceptance of very low priority
> fixes like you reference towards or at the end of
> Icehouse.
>

I don't think we should be blocking them per-se as long as they fit the API
change guidelines https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/APIChangeGuidelines.


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> Chris
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