[openstack-dev] [wsme] potential issues with WSME 0.8.0
Dmitry Tantsur
dtantsur at redhat.com
Wed Aug 26 09:12:52 UTC 2015
On 08/26/2015 11:05 AM, Lucas Alvares Gomes wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 26, 2015 at 9:27 AM, Chris Dent <chdent at redhat.com> wrote:
>> On Wed, 26 Aug 2015, Dmitry Tantsur wrote:
>>
>>> Note that this is an API breaking change, which can potentially break
>>> random users of all projects using wsme. I think we should communicate this
>>> point a bit louder, and I also believe it should have warranted a major
>>> version bump.
>>
>>
>> Yeah, Lucas and I weren't actually aware of the specific impact of that
>> change until after it was released; part of the danger of being cores-on-
>> demand rather than cores-by-desire[1].
>>
>> I'll speak with him and dhellman later this morning and figure out
>> the best thing to do.
>>
>
> +1, yeah I kinda agree with the major version bump. But also it's
> important to note that Ironic which was affected by that was relying
> on be able to POST nonexistent fields to create resources and WSME
> would just ignore those on versions <= 0.8.0. That's a legitimate bug
> that have been fixed in WSME (and projects shouldn't have relied on
> that in the first place).
Note that I'm not talking about our projects, I'm talking about our
users, whose automation might become broken after the switch.
>
> Cheers,
> Lucas
>
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