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

Sylvain Bauza sbauza at redhat.com
Tue Nov 17 20:05:29 UTC 2015



Le 17/11/2015 20:25, Sean Dague a écrit :
> 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
>

Agreed, it's now far easier to ask for having a release note within the 
change, so the operators can just look at that. It also seems to me far 
better for them to check the release notes rather than trying to see the 
huge nova.conf file...

-Sylvain




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