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On 01/23/2014 05:31 PM, Christopher Yeoh wrote:
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> On Fri, Jan 24, 2014 at 8:34 am, Russell Bryant
> <rbryant at redhat.com="mailto:rbryant at redhat.com">> wrote:
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>     Greetings,
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>     Recently Sean Dague started some threads [1][2] about the future of XML
>     support in Nova's compute API. Specifically, he proposed [3] that we
>     drop XML support in the next major version of the API (v3). I wanted to
>     follow up on this to make the outcome clear.
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>     I feel that we should move forward with this proposal and drop XML
>     support from the v3 compute API. The ongoing cost in terms of
>     development, maintenance, documentation, and verification has been
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>     high. After talking to a number of people about this, I do not feel
>     that keeping it provides enough value to justify the cost. 
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> ​+1
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>  To clean the XML code out of the V3 API code (both Nova and Tempest)
> will involve a substantial number of patches though they will be pretty
> straightforward and easy to review. So to get this done in time it would
> be very helpful if some cores could commit to helping with the reviews.
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> https://blueprints.launchpad.net/nova/+spec/remove-v3-xml-api
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> I'm happy to do so, but since I'll probably be writing many of the
> patches we'll need others as well.

I know Sean is interested in helping write and review the patches.  You
guys give me a ping when you need a series reviewed.

-- 
Russell Bryant