Hola,
In Stein, I provided a new feature [1] that was checking inventories from multiple children resource providers (RP). Since in Rocky, those inventories were only on the root RP, I had to provide both :
#1 : an upgrade support for RPs that were not having a parent RP (that was the case of Stein compute nodes) [2]
#2 : a reshape method in the libvirt driver for moving allocations from a root RP to children RPs [3]
Now, we're in the Ussuri timeframe and as I was usually doing, I removed the upgrade support (in #1) since we're 100% sure that all compute nodes are either Train or Ussuri [4]
This is cool, but now the reshape code I wrote for #2 no longer works (which is normal, since the 'non-Stein' support was removed) [5]
Soooooo. Can I also then remove the reshape support ? That would mean that upgrading from Rocky to Train would work, but Rocky to Ussuri wouldn't. I'm personally OK with this, but I guess other people could have concerns with.
Do we have any consensus about how longer we would support a reshape ? I think honestly that a 3-releases time window is enough but I can hear some disagreements about this strawman proposal. If so, please voice.
-Sylvain