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On 2/12/15, 9:57 AM, "Ian Cordasco" <ian.cordasco at RACKSPACE.COM> wrote:

>On 2/11/15, 11:10, "Okuma, Wayne" <wayne.okuma at hp.com> wrote:
>
>>Hello,
>> 
>>I would like to change the metadef-tags create API which was checked into
>>Kilo (cycle 1).
>>The python-glanceclient that would support metadef-tags has not been
>>released yet and I would like to make this change before doing so.
>>The details are here:
>>https://review.openstack.org/#/c/154229/
>> 
>>Thanks and Regards,
>>Wayne
>
>Hey Wayne,
>
>Thanks for bringing this to the Mailing List for discussion. Since this
>was added in K-1, and those milestones are effectively alpha/beta releases
>I don¹t think anyone can have a serious expectation that a feature added
>after Juno and before Kilo will be stable (and supported) until Kilo is
>released. This is a clear mistake in the implementation of the spec so it
>should be fixed before it is too late to fix it. It¹s a backwards
>incompatible change, but it¹s only incompatible with an alpha version of
>the code. There shouldn¹t ever be a guarantee of backwards compatibility
>between K-1 and K-3 (or any of the intermediate milestones). This isn¹t to
>say we should go around breaking features added in one of them while we
>still can, just that we shouldn¹t be so hesitant to fix something that was
>implemented incorrectly.
>
>Cheers,
>Ian
+1.  I agree with Ian on all points.  I don¹t see a problem with this
change.

cheers,
brian