> On Jan. 22, 2015, 9:30 p.m., Brian Wickman wrote:
> > I think we should leave the yaml code but drop the PyYAML dependency from 
> > the client requirements.  (And inject it into the test -- possibly one test 
> > with and one test without to make sure the try/except also functions 
> > correctly.)  I feel that .yml is actually a much more natural way of 
> > defining the cluster list than json, because YAML supports basic templating 
> > in order to reduce redundancy, similar to pystachio.
> > 
> > The way the code is currently structured, YAML will still work fine if it's 
> > available in the environmenet of your Aurora client, and gracefully fall 
> > back if not.
> > 
> > Thoughts?
> 
> Zameer Manji wrote:
>     If we are going to drop the PyYAML dependency then I think we should drop 
> all of the YAML related code. I agree that YAML is a much nicer format 
> because of the templating functionality it has but as it stands I think the 
> cost of supporting YAML (native code, extra compelxity in loading) is greater 
> than the benefits of a simpler config file.
> 
> Joshua Cohen wrote:
>     I'm not sure the added complexity is worth the minor benefits provided by 
> YAML. Is cluster configuration really so complex that it requires templating 
> (and if so, could we rely on cluster administrators to work out their own 
> mechanism for templatizing config, puppet/chef/etc.)

I agree with Zameer and Joshua - we should avoid complexity that only benefits 
partially-supported features.


- Bill


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On Jan. 22, 2015, 9:09 p.m., Bill Farner wrote:
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> (Updated Jan. 22, 2015, 9:09 p.m.)
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> 
> Review request for Aurora, Brian Wickman and Zameer Manji.
> 
> 
> Bugs: AURORA-1029
>     https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/AURORA-1029
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> 
> Repository: aurora
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> 
> Description
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> Remove support for cluster metadata in YAML format.
> 
> 
> Diffs
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>   src/main/python/apache/aurora/common/clusters.py 
> e55aa774b4b868f696a7de51bb016f950871dd1e 
>   src/test/python/apache/aurora/common/BUILD 
> 14165b96be99b8de418f4bb8def9f27eaf29e67d 
>   src/test/python/apache/aurora/common/test_clusters.py 
> 45250e609cca1149dc296b2aaf645ff2f58f8288 
> 
> Diff: https://reviews.apache.org/r/30187/diff/
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> 
> Testing
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> 
> ./build-support/jenkins/build.sh
> 
> test_end_to_end.sh is currently broken on master, i will address that and 
> ensure it passes before committing this.
> 
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Bill Farner
> 
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