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On 03/04/2014 05:00 PM, Kevin L. Mitchell wrote:
> On Tue, 2014-03-04 at 12:11 -0800, Dan Smith wrote:
>> Now, the actual concern is not related to any of that, but about whether
>> we're going to open this up as a new thing we support. In general, my
>> reaction to adding new APIs people expect to be stable is "no". However,
>> I understand why things like the resource reporting and even my events
>> mechanism are very useful for deployers to do some plumbing and
>> monitoring of their environment -- things that don't belong upstream anyway.
>>
>> So I'm conflicted. I think that for these two cases, as long as we can
>> say that it's not a stable interface, I think it's probably okay.
>> However, things like we've had in the past, where we provide a clear
>> plug point for something like "Compute manager API class" are clearly
>> off the table, IMHO.
> 
> How about using 'unstable' as a component of the entrypoint group?
> E.g., "nova.unstable.events"…

Wouldn't that defeat the "point" of entry points ... immutable
endpoints? What happens when an unstable event is deemed stable?

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