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On Thu, May 19, 2016 at 01:21:35PM -0700, Devananda van der Veen wrote:
> On 05/16/2016 07:14 AM, Lucas Alvares Gomes wrote:
> > On Mon, May 16, 2016 at 2:57 PM, Loo, Ruby <ruby.loo at intel.com> wrote:
> >> Hi,
> >>
> >> A patch to ironic-lib made me wonder about what is our supported usage of
> >> ironic-lib. Or even the intent/scope of it. This patch changes a method,
> >> ‘bootable’ parameter is removed and ‘boot_flag’ parameter is added [1].
> >>
> >> If this library/method is used by some out-of-tree thing (or even some
> >> in-tree but outside of ironic), this will be a breaking change. If this
> >> library is meant to be internal to ironic program itself, and to e.g. only
> >> be used by ironic and IPA, then that is different. I was under the
> >> impression that it was a library and meant to be used by whatever, no
> >> restrictions on what that whatever was. It would be WAY easier if we limited
> >> this for usage by only a few specified projects.
> >>
> >> What do people think?
> >>
> > 
> > I still believe that the ironic-lib project was designed to share code
> > between the Ironic projects _only_. Otherwise, if it the code was
> > supposed to be shared across multiple projects we should have put it
> > in oslo instead.
> 
> I agree, and don't see a compelling reason, today, for anyone to do the work to
> make ironic-lib into a stable library. So...
> 
> I think we should keep ironic-lib where it is (in ironic, not oslo) and keep the
> scope we intended (only for use within the Ironic project group [1]).
> 
> We should more clearly signal that intent within the library (eg, in the README)
> and the project description (eg. on PyPI).
> 
> [1]
> https://github.com/openstack/governance/blob/master/reference/projects.yaml#L1915

+1, let's not put extra burden on ourselves at this time.

// jim

> 
> 
> my 2c,
> Devananda
> 
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