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

On Sun, Jun 19, 2016 at 3:06 PM, Moran Goldboim <mgoldboi(a)redhat.com&gt; 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. > > 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 > el6 to el7 host migration should have been done in 3.5. 3.6 doesn't support el6 as hosts...

> > On Sun, Jun 19, 2016 at 4:00 PM, Yaniv Dary <ydary(a)redhat.com&gt; wrote: > >> What is the cost of keeping them? >> >> Yaniv Dary >> Technical Product Manager >> Red Hat Israel Ltd. >> 34 Jerusalem Road >> Building A, 4th floor >> Ra'anana, Israel 4350109 >> >> Tel : +972 (9) 7692306 >> 8272306 >> Email: ydary(a)redhat.com >> IRC : ydary >> >> >> On Sun, Jun 19, 2016 at 3:40 PM, Dan Kenigsberg <danken(a)redhat.com&gt; >> 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 >>> > >>> > Thoughts? >>> >>> +1, but let's see if ydary/mgoldboi think we should keep 3.6. >>> >> >> > > _______________________________________________ > Devel mailing list > Devel(a)ovirt.org > http://lists.ovirt.org/mailman/listinfo/devel > -- Sandro Bonazzola Better technology. Faster innovation. Powered by community collaboration. See how it works at redhat.com