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

[Nir Soffer]

On Sun, Jun 19, 2016 at 3:40 PM, Dan Kenigsberg <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.

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.