> -----Original Message----- > From: Chip Childers [mailto:chip.child...@sungard.com] > Sent: Tuesday, July 09, 2013 11:00 AM > To: Edison Su > Cc: dev@cloudstack.apache.org > Subject: Re: Swift in 4.2 is broken, anybody wants it to be supported in 4.2? > > On Tue, Jul 09, 2013 at 05:56:24PM +0000, Edison Su wrote: > > > > > > > -----Original Message----- > > > From: John Burwell [mailto:jburw...@basho.com] > > > Sent: Tuesday, July 09, 2013 7:53 AM > > > To: dev@cloudstack.apache.org > > > Cc: 'Chip Childers' > > > Subject: Re: Swift in 4.2 is broken, anybody wants it to be supported in > 4.2? > > > > > > Edison, > > > > > > As I read through this thread, we seem to be conflating the following > topics: > > > > > > 1. Feature regression testing per release cycle > > > 2. Identifying and back porting defect fixes to previous releases > > > 3. Feature removal process > > > > > > To my mind, these topics are completely unrelated. We have > > > regression test and defect triage processes to address items 1 and > > > 2. If you feel that they can be improved, then we should discuss > > > those improvements in a separate thread. No community or system > > > will be perfect. I believe the best we can do is seek to do it > > > better today than yesterday. To that end, observing that we did > > > something poorly in the past does not justify continuing to do it poorly > > > or > removing a feature on which users are relying. > > > > > > > > > I am concerned about item 3 -- the merge of a feature removal > > > without community consensus. If you *think* a feature is broken in > > > a previous > > > > This feature is not been tested since about one and half year ago, nobody > knows the status of swift integration. > > If we can't claim to support Swift in 4.0, 4.1, then why you think I am > removing a feature? > > But we *do* claim that support. See [1]. > > Not having tested it is *not* the same as saying that it isn't supported. > > [1] http://cloudstack.apache.org/docs/en- > US/Apache_CloudStack/4.1.0/html/Installation_Guide/about-secondary- > storage.html
IMHO, saying something is supported without tested for each release is worse than saying not supported.
