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I'd say 5 years is a reasonable time frame.  It's at the longer end of a
lease cycle or production lifecycle plan.

-matt


On Mon, Feb 24, 2014 at 9:15 PM, Russell Bryant <rbryant at redhat.com> wrote:

> CC'ing the openstack-operators mailing list to get a wider set of
> feedback on this question.
>
> On 02/24/2014 05:26 PM, Christopher Yeoh wrote:
> >> 1) Continue as we have been, and plan to release v3 once we have a
> >> compelling enough feature set.
> >
> > So I think we should release in Juno even if its only with tasks and
> > nova-network added. Because this allows new users to start using the
> > API immediately rather than having to code against V2 (with its extra
> > barriers to use) and then take the hit to upgrade later.
>
> OK, let's go a bit further with the case of marking the v3 API stable in
> Juno.  If we did that, what is a reasonable timeframe of v2 being
> deprecated before it could be removed?
>
> From a selfish developer perspective, the answer is "remove v2
> immediately".  From a selfish user perspective, the answer is "never
> remove it".  Where is the reasonable middle ground?  How long would it
> take to have enough clients migrated that we could remove the old API?
>
> I'm interested in answers from pretty much everyone on this, including
> deployers, as well as users of our APIs.  I'm also especially interested
> in an opinion from large public clouds based on OpenStack.
>
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