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Mark McLoughlin wrote:
> On Wed, 2013-06-19 at 10:20 +0200, Thierry Carrez wrote:
>> I'd suggest to be a bit careful with that... It's a bit hard to tell
>> whether it's being used, since some parties may take advantage of this
>> plugin framework and we don't really know about them.
>>
>> Maybe ask about anyone using those on the general ML ? Can it be
>> "deprecated" in Havana instead of removed ?
> 
> Well, the implication of that would be oslo.messaging supporting an API
> that we won't need in future.
> 
> It's not totally clear what our level of support is for external plugins
> like this is. Certainly the API extensions hooks in Nova aren't
> something we've committed to maintaining API stability around.
> 
> Which means that this interface is unstable. If you were using it in
> Folsom or Grizzly, you have to be prepared for it to change in Havana.
> 
> And the change isn't actually as big a deal as it sounds even for people
> who may we using it - you just register your API extensions via the
> osapi_compute_extension config option and your notification driver via
> the notification_driver config option. There's a very clear migration
> path.

Fair enough. I would still give a heads-up on the general list to give a
chance to our massive plugin community to show up and complain... but I
agree that it sounds like a good idea.

-- 
Thierry Carrez (ttx)