On Tue, Aug 27, 2013 at 8:52 AM, Russell Bryant <rbryant at redhat.com> wrote: > > What about publishing the API as blacklisted by default? This way it > > would be available only to users that enable it explicitly, while still > > supporting the scenario described above. > > It still makes no sense to me to merge an API for a feature that can't > be used. > While it's true that there won't be an in-tree driver that supports the API for this release cycle, we have a commercial driver that supports it ( https://github.com/gridcentric/cobalt). Having the API standardized in Havana would ensure that client support is immediately available for our users as well as for the other hypervisor vendors should they release a supporting driver in the next 9 months. I believe there is precedent for publishing a nova API for those purposes. > > -- > Russell Bryant > > _______________________________________________ > OpenStack-dev mailing list > OpenStack-dev at lists.openstack.org > http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openstack-dev > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.openstack.org/pipermail/openstack-dev/attachments/20130827/55b2ce35/attachment.html>