[openstack-dev] [nova] What things do we want to get into a python-novaclient 3.0 release?

Matt Riedemann mriedem at linux.vnet.ibm.com
Thu Dec 3 17:15:32 UTC 2015



On 11/20/2015 10:37 AM, Matt Riedemann wrote:
>
>
> On 11/20/2015 10:20 AM, Matt Riedemann wrote:
>>
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>> On 11/20/2015 3:48 AM, Matthew Booth wrote:
>>> I wrote this a while back, which implements 'migrate everything off this
>>> compute host' in the most robust manner I could come up with using only
>>> the external api:
>>>
>>> https://gist.github.com/mdbooth/163f5fdf47ab45d7addd
>>>
>>> It obviously overlaps considerably with host-servers-migrate, which is
>>> supposed to do the same thing. Users seem to have been appreciative, so
>>> I'd be interested to see it merged in some form.
>>>
>>> Matt
>>>
>>> On Thu, Nov 19, 2015 at 6:18 PM, Matt Riedemann
>>> <mriedem at linux.vnet.ibm.com <mailto:mriedem at linux.vnet.ibm.com>> wrote:
>>>
>>>     We've been talking about doing a 3.0 release for novaclient for
>>>     awhile so we can make some backward incompatible changes, like:
>>>
>>>     1. Removing the novaclient.v1_1 module
>>>     2. Dropping py26 support (if there is any explicit py26 support in
>>>     there)
>>>
>>>     What else are people aware of?
>>>
>>>     Monty was talking about doing a thing with auth:
>>>
>>>     https://review.openstack.org/#/c/245200/
>>>
>>>     But it sounds like that is not really needed now?
>>>
>>>     I'd say let's target mitaka-2 for a 3.0 release and get these
>>>     flushed out.
>>>
>>>     --
>>>
>>>     Thanks,
>>>
>>>     Matt Riedemann
>>>
>>>
>>>
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>>
>> That's not a backward compatible change, so not really necessary for a
>> major version release. We'd need a blueprint at least for it though
>> since it's adding a new CLI that does some orchestration. I commented in
>> the repo, there is a similar version in another repo, so yeah, people
>> are doing this and it'd be good if we could decide if it's something
>> that should live in tree and be maintained officially.
>>
>> A functional test would be sweet, but given it deals with migration and
>> the novaclient functional tests are assuming a single node devstack,
>> that's probably not going to fly. We could ask sdague about that though.
>>
>
> Sorry, that's not a backward *incompatible* change.
>

Just an update, we've merged the changes to drop the novaclient.v1_1 
module and the change to drop py26 support.

We're waiting on https://review.openstack.org/#/c/245200/ which should 
be ready next week.

So that means we hope to release python-novaclient 3.0 next week sometime.

-- 

Thanks,

Matt Riedemann




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