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+1 to option #1

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On Wed, Oct 23, 2013 at 2:34 PM, Mark Washenberger <
mark.washenberger at markwash.net> wrote:

> Hi folks!
>
> In the images api, we depend on iso8601 to parse some dates and times.
> Recently, since version 0.1.4, python-iso8601 added support for a few more
> formats, and we finally got some other issues nailed down by 0.1.8. Maybe
> the fact that these formats weren't supported before was a bug. I don't
> really know.
>
> This puts us in an awkward place, however. With the help of our unit
> tests, we noticed that, if you switch from 0.1.8 back to 0.1.4 in your
> deployment, your image api will lose support for certain datetime formats
> like YYYY-MM-DD (where the time part is assumed to be all zeros). This
> obviously creates a (perhaps small) compatibility concern.
>
> Here are our alternatives:
>
> 1) Adopt 0.1.8 as the minimum version in openstack-requirements.
> 2) Do nothing (i.e. let Glance behavior depend on iso8601 in this way, and
> just fix the tests so they don't care about these extra formats)
> 3) Make Glance work with the added formats even if 0.1.4 is installed.
>
> As of yesterday we were resolved to do #3, trying to be good citizens. But
> it appears that to do so requires essentially reimplementing a large swath
> of iso8601 0.1.8 in glance itself. Gross!
>
> So, I'd like to suggest that we instead adopt option #1, or alternatively
> agree that option #2 is no big deal, we can all go back to sleep. Thoughts?
>
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