[openstack-dev] [nova] nova hooks - document & test or deprecate?

Dan Smith dms at danplanet.com
Mon Feb 29 17:12:10 UTC 2016


> In our continued quest on being more explicit about plug points it feels
> like we should other document the interface (which means creating
> stability on the hook parameters) or we should deprecate this construct
> as part of a bygone era.
> 
> I lean on deprecation because it feels like a thing we don't really want
> to support going forward, but I can go either way.

Deprecate and remove, please. We've been removing these sorts of things
over time, and nova hooks have been ignored in that process. But really,
making them more rigid is going to get in the way over time, trying to
continue to honor an interface that codifies internals at a certain
point in time, and leaving them as-is will just continue to generate
issues like the quoted bug.

I don't "lean" on deprecation, I feel strongly that these should go away.

--Dan



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