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On 01/30/2014 09:13 AM, Christopher Yeoh wrote:
> 
> On Fri, Jan 31, 2014 at 12:27 AM, Russell Bryant <rbryant at redhat.com
>     I can't say in any sort of confidence that I think nova-network will go
>     away in the foreseeable future.  Yes, this has an unfortunate big impact
>     on our original plan for the v3 API.  :-(
> 
>     However, I'm also not sure about the status of v3 in Icehouse, anyway.
>     One of the key things I want to see in before we freeze the API is the
>     tasks work.  AFAIK, there hasn't been any design review on this, much
>     less code review.  It seems incredibly unlikely that it will be done for
>     Icehouse at this point.  Andrew, thoughts?
> 
> 
> I don't think the lack the tasks api being merged should stop us from
> releasing the V3 API (it perhaps means there is one less significant
> reason for people to move from the V2 API). Releasing the v3 API doesn't
> stop us from adding tasks at a later stage to the V3 API as it could be
> a simple additional way to interact and in practice I'd imagine there
> will be gradual increase in support of doing things in a tasks oriented
> way rather than a big bang everything now uses tasks approach.
> 
> And the sooner we can release the V3 API, the sooner we can put the V2
> API into maintenance mode and avoid the overhead of having every new
> feature having to be written for both.

Well, it depends.

If the tasks API is going to purely be an add-on, then sure, I agree.
If it's a fundamental shift to the existing API, including changing how
we respond to things like creating a server, then I think it has to wait.

We really need to have some rough design agreed upon to make this call
effectively.  In the absence of that, I think the right thing to do is
to proceed with v3 as it stands, which will put some limitations on how
drastic the tasks addition can be.

-- 
Russell Bryant