On Fri, Jan 24, 2014 at 8:28 AM, Russell Bryant <rbry...@redhat.com> wrote:
> Greetings, > > Recently Sean Dague started some threads [1][2] about the future of XML > support in Nova's compute API. Specifically, he proposed [3] that we > drop XML support in the next major version of the API (v3). I wanted to > follow up on this to make the outcome clear. > > I feel that we should move forward with this proposal and drop XML > support from the v3 compute API. The ongoing cost in terms of > development, maintenance, documentation, and verification has been quite > high. After talking to a number of people about this, I do not feel > that keeping it provides enough value to justify the cost. > > Even though we may be dropping it now, I will not say that we will > *never* support it in the future. If there is enough interest (and work > behind it) in the future, we could revisit a new implementation that is > easier to support long term. For now, we will stick to what we know > works, and that is the JSON API. > There is now an etherpad here https://etherpad.openstack.org/p/NovaRemoveXMLV3 to help coordinate removal of the XML code and avoid duplication of effort. Chris
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