[openstack-dev] [nova] Revert Baremetal v3 API extension?

Russell Bryant rbryant at redhat.com
Wed Sep 4 14:43:09 UTC 2013


On 09/04/2013 10:26 AM, Dan Smith wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> As someone who has felt about as much pain as possible from the
> dual-maintenance of the v2 and v3 API extensions, I felt compelled to
> bring up one that I think we can drop. The baremetal extension was
> ported to v3 API before (I think) the decision was made to make v3
> experimental for Havana. There are a couple of patches up for review
> right now that make obligatory changes to one or both of the versions,
> which is what made me think about this.
> 
> Since Ironic is on the horizon and was originally slated to deprecate
> the in-nova-tree baremetal support for Havana, and since v3 is only
> experimental in Havana, I think we can drop the baremetal extension for
> the v3 API for now. If Nova's baremetal support isn't ready for
> deprecation by the time we're ready to promote the v3 API, we can
> re-introduce it at that time. Until then, I propose we avoid carrying
> it for a soon-to-be-deprecated feature.
> 
> Thoughts?

Sounds reasonable to me.  Anyone else have a differing opinion about it?

-- 
Russell Bryant



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