On Tue, Apr 20, 2010 at 8:15 AM, Florian Haas <florian.h...@linbit.com> wrote:
> On 04/20/2010 07:03 AM, Tim Serong wrote:
>> On 4/20/2010 at 06:48 AM, Lars Marowsky-Bree <l...@novell.com> wrote:
>>> In general, I think the ability to depreciate functionality is needed,
>>> but shouldn't be slip-streamed into a minor dot release, and we first
>>> need to do some more home work to get our infrastructure right before we
>>> should consider breaking customer configurations.
>>
>> This'd be easiest if the metadata explicitly said an RA was deprecated,
>> for example something like:
>>
>>   <?xml version="1.0"?>
>>   <!DOCTYPE resource-agent SYSTEM "ra-api-1.dtd">
>>   <resource-agent name="Evmsd" version="0.9" deprecated="true">
>>   ...
>>
>> ATM, the deprecated RAs all seem to follow the same convention of using
>> "(deprecated)" in the shortdesc, e.g.:
>>
>>   <shortdesc lang="en">Controls clustered EVMS volume management
>>   (deprecated)</shortdesc>
>>
>> ...but grepping arbitrary text out of a description always irks me.
>> It's a little inexact.
>
> I'll shoulder the blame for that. I came up with that "(deprecated)"
> kludge for fear of lmb jumping in circles about an unauthorized
> modification of the RA metadata schema. But now you started it! Which
> allows me to wholeheartedly second your motion.

Which brings up another good point...
Can we please make OCF relevant again by converting the repo to Hg and
allowing access?
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