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On Mon, Jun 24, 2013 at 11:53 PM, John Griffith <john.griffith at solidfire.com
> wrote:

> All,
>
> I wanted to loop the larger community in on some discussions that have
> been taking place on #openstack-cinder.
>
> During the Summit we talked about switching to Pecan for our API/Web
> framework.  Since then we've registered a BP [1] and some pretty good
> progress has been made.
>
> Since starting this effort however we've been debating the best way to
> implement this change:
>
> 1. Replace existing WSGI framework in the existing API versions
>
> In my opinion there's a bit of risk here with changing the entire
> framework tha the API is built on, and even though I'm confident this can
> be done I'm not sure of the return on the investment and really I don't see
> anything that compelling when you consider all of the changes in not only
> the API code but in the unit tests that would be affected.
>
> 2. Bump to a new API version and isolate the changes to that new version
>
> This is my preference and IMO the right way to go, however there's no
> driving need for another API version bump in Cinder currently.  I
> personally don't like the idea of bumping the API version for every
> release, even if we're keeping things stable and maintaining backward
> compatibility without issues.  For me there isn't an overly compelling
> reason to justify this change for the H release.
>
> My plan is to go with option #2, and to push this change out until the I
> release.  I'd like to know if anybody has strong feelings or justifications
> that we should consider on this before moving forward.
>

+1

This was the approach I advocated that projects take at the summit. I think
the backwards-compatibility questions Mike ran into are a good
justification for sticking with this plan.

Doug


>
> Thanks,
> John
>
> [1] https://blueprints.launchpad.net/cinder/+spec/web-framework-switch
>
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