[openstack-dev] [Trove] How users should specify a datastore type when creating an instance

Michael Basnight mbasnight at gmail.com
Tue Oct 22 17:21:38 UTC 2013


On Oct 22, 2013, at 9:34 AM, Tim Simpson wrote:

> > It's not intuitive to the User, if they are specifying a version alone.  You don't boot a 'version' of something, with specifying what that some thing is.  I would rather they only specified the datastore_type alone, and not have them specify a version at all.
> 
> I agree for most users just selecting the datastore_type would be most intutive. 
> 
> However, when they specify a version it's going to a be GUID which they could only possibly know if they have recently enumerated all versions and thus *know* the version is for the given type they want. In that case I don't think most users would appreciate having to also pass the type- it would just be redundant. So in that case why not make it optional?]

im ok w/ making either "optional" if the criteria for selecting the _other_ is not ambiguous. 
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