Thanks for the feedback everyone. Lucas has submitted a patch to ironic-lib¹s README to clarify this: https://review.openstack.org/#/c/319251/.
--ruby On 2016-05-20, 8:46 AM, "Jim Rollenhagen" <j...@jimrollenhagen.com> wrote: >On Thu, May 19, 2016 at 01:21:35PM -0700, Devananda van der Veen wrote: >> On 05/16/2016 07:14 AM, Lucas Alvares Gomes wrote: >> > On Mon, May 16, 2016 at 2:57 PM, Loo, Ruby <ruby....@intel.com> wrote: >> >> Hi, >> >> >> >> A patch to ironic-lib made me wonder about what is our supported usage of >> >> ironic-lib. Or even the intent/scope of it. This patch changes a method, >> >> Œbootable¹ parameter is removed and Œboot_flag¹ parameter is added [1]. >> >> >> >> If this library/method is used by some out-of-tree thing (or even some >> >> in-tree but outside of ironic), this will be a breaking change. If this >> >> library is meant to be internal to ironic program itself, and to e.g. only >> >> be used by ironic and IPA, then that is different. I was under the >> >> impression that it was a library and meant to be used by whatever, no >> >> restrictions on what that whatever was. It would be WAY easier if we >> >> limited >> >> this for usage by only a few specified projects. >> >> >> >> What do people think? >> >> >> > >> > I still believe that the ironic-lib project was designed to share code >> > between the Ironic projects _only_. Otherwise, if it the code was >> > supposed to be shared across multiple projects we should have put it >> > in oslo instead. >> >> I agree, and don't see a compelling reason, today, for anyone to do the work >> to >> make ironic-lib into a stable library. So... >> >> I think we should keep ironic-lib where it is (in ironic, not oslo) and keep >> the >> scope we intended (only for use within the Ironic project group [1]). >> >> We should more clearly signal that intent within the library (eg, in the >> README) >> and the project description (eg. on PyPI). >> >> [1] >> https://github.com/openstack/governance/blob/master/reference/projects.yaml#L1915 > >+1, let's not put extra burden on ourselves at this time. > >// jim > >> >> >> my 2c, >> Devananda >> >> __________________________________________________________________________ >> OpenStack Development Mailing List (not for usage questions) >> Unsubscribe: openstack-dev-requ...@lists.openstack.org?subject:unsubscribe >> http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openstack-dev > >__________________________________________________________________________ >OpenStack Development Mailing List (not for usage questions) >Unsubscribe: openstack-dev-requ...@lists.openstack.org?subject:unsubscribe >http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openstack-dev __________________________________________________________________________ OpenStack Development Mailing List (not for usage questions) Unsubscribe: openstack-dev-requ...@lists.openstack.org?subject:unsubscribe http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openstack-dev
