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

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. Ok, so we can remove now 3.5 support, and backport it to 4.0.

>> 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 don't think we have many verbs to remove, it is mainly about rotten infrastructure that we can delete or simplify. Nir > >> >> 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.