<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Jan 24, 2014 at 8:28 AM, Russell Bryant <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:rbryant@redhat.com" target="_blank">rbryant@redhat.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">Greetings,<br>
<br>
Recently Sean Dague started some threads [1][2] about the future of XML<br>
support in Nova's compute API. Specifically, he proposed [3] that we<br>
drop XML support in the next major version of the API (v3). I wanted to<br>
follow up on this to make the outcome clear.<br>
<br>
I feel that we should move forward with this proposal and drop XML<br>
support from the v3 compute API. The ongoing cost in terms of<br>
development, maintenance, documentation, and verification has been quite<br>
high. After talking to a number of people about this, I do not feel<br>
that keeping it provides enough value to justify the cost.<br>
<br>
Even though we may be dropping it now, I will not say that we will<br>
*never* support it in the future. If there is enough interest (and work<br>
behind it) in the future, we could revisit a new implementation that is<br>
easier to support long term. For now, we will stick to what we know<br>
works, and that is the JSON API.<br></blockquote><div><br><br></div><div>There is now an etherpad here <a href="https://etherpad.openstack.org/p/NovaRemoveXMLV3">https://etherpad.openstack.org/p/NovaRemoveXMLV3</a><br></div>
<div>to help coordinate removal of the XML code and avoid duplication of effort.<br><br></div><div>Chris<br></div></div></div></div>