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

Sean Dague sean at dague.net
Tue Nov 17 19:25:15 UTC 2015


On 11/17/2015 01:48 PM, Matt Riedemann wrote:
> 
> 
> 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.

Honestly, with reno now we could probably just add a release note in
when we add it. That's more likely for us to not loose a thing like that.

	-Sean

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