[openstack-dev] [oslo] [nova] default-next-release opt flag

Matt Riedemann mriedem at linux.vnet.ibm.com
Tue Nov 17 18:48:18 UTC 2015



On 11/17/2015 11:28 AM, Alexis Lee wrote:
> Often in Nova we introduce an option defaulted off (so as not to break
> people) but then we want to make it default in the next release.
>
> Someone suggested an opt flag to mark this but I don't know what impact
> they wanted it to have. IE how the user should be alerted about the
> presence of these flagged options.
>
> If you are that person, or have opinions on this, please reply :)
>
>
> Alexis (lxsli)
>

There is the deprecated_for_removal kwarg, but that doesn't fit here. 
There is the DeprecatedOpt, but that's for moving/renaming options. So 
this is something else, like deprecated_default or 
pending_default_change or something.

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Thanks,

Matt Riedemann




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