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On 06/04/2015 04:40 PM, Ruby Loo wrote:
> Hi,
>
> In Kilo, we introduced microversions but it seems to be a
> work-in-progress. There is an effort now to add microversion into the
> API-WG's guidelines, to provide a consistent way of using microversions
> across OpenStack projects [1]. Specifically, in the context of this
> email, there is a proposed guideline for when to bump the microversion [2].

As I understand this guideline tells to bump microversion on every 
change which I strongly -1 as usual. Reason: it's bump for the sake of 
bump, without any direct benefit for users (no, API discoverability is 
not one, because microversion do not solve it).

I'll post the same comment to the guideline.

>
> Last week, in an IRC discussion [3], Devananda suggested that we bump
> the microversion in these situations: ' "required for any
> non-backwards-compatible change, and strongly encouraged for any
> significant features" ? (and yes, that's subjective) '.
>
> What do people think of that? I think it is clear that we should do it
> for any non-backwards-compatible change. The subjective part worries me
> a bit -- who decides, the feature submitter or the cores or ?

My vote is: if we can proof that a sane user will be broken by the 
change, we bump the microversion.

>
> Alternatively, if people aren't too worried or care that much, we can
> decide to follow the guideline [3] (and limp along until that guideline
> is finalized).
>
> --ruby
>
>
> [1] http://lists.openstack.org/pipermail/openstack-dev/2015-June/065793.html
> [2] https://review.openstack.org/#/c/187896/
> [3] around 2015-05-26T16:29:05,
> http://eavesdrop.openstack.org/irclogs/%23openstack-ironic/%23openstack-ironic.2015-05-26.log
>
>
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