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

[Sandro Bonazzola]

On Sun, Jun 19, 2016 at 3:06 PM, 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.
>
> 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 at redhat.com> wrote:
>
>> What is the cost of keeping them?
>>
>> Yaniv Dary
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>> 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.
>>>
>>> >
>>> > 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.
>>>
>>
>>
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