[ovirt-devel] Ending support for 3.x engines on master

[Michal Skrivanek]

> On 19 Jun 2016, at 15:06, Moran Goldboim <mgoldboi at redhat.com> wrote:
> 
> my pov - really depends on when do we release 4.1.
> short version (Dec 16) - we should keep it, and 3.6 api as well
> long version (Mar 17) - let's drop it than.

I would concur
So we need a decision regarding short vs long 4.1 ASAP

> 
> bottom line - we would like to give customers/community the time to migrate their el6 base deployment to el7 , while allowing them dual management infra. by march next year we should be in the 7.4/.next timeframe - this should be ok to our conservative customer base as well
> 
> On Sun, Jun 19, 2016 at 4:00 PM, Yaniv Dary <ydary at redhat.com <mailto:ydary at redhat.com>> wrote:
> What is the cost of keeping them?

The cost of having to live with legacy code is always high

Thanks,
michal

> 
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> On Sun, Jun 19, 2016 at 3:40 PM, Dan Kenigsberg <danken at redhat.com <mailto:danken at redhat.com>> wrote:
> On Sun, Jun 19, 2016 at 02:13:40PM +0300, Nir Soffer wrote:
> > Hi all,
> >
> > We should not support now Engine 3.5 with ovirt 4.0, but vdsm still
> > accept 3.5 engines - I guess we forgot to disable it in 4.0.
> 
> Correct. There was a moment in time where we considered supporting 3.5
> as well.
> 
> >
> > In 4.1, I don't think we should support any 3.x Engine - otherwise we
> > will have to waste time maintaining old apis and infrastructure, instead
> > of adding new features that matter to our users.
> 
> Do you have a list of old APIs you'd like to throw away? We've killed a
> few in 4.0, and
>   $ git grep REQUIRED_FOR
> is not huge.
> 
> >
> > I suggest we disable now support for 3.x engines.
> >
> > Please see Eli patch:
> > https://gerrit.ovirt.org/59308 <https://gerrit.ovirt.org/59308>
> >
> > Thoughts?
> 
> +1, but let's see if ydary/mgoldboi think we should keep 3.6.
> 
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