On Thu, 2014-07-10 at 16:21 -0400, Eoghan Glynn wrote: > > > One of the issues that has been raised in the recent discussions with > > > the QA team about branchless Tempest relates to some legacy defects > > > in the OpenStack notification system. > > > > Got links to specifics? I thought the consensus was that there was a > > contract here which we need to maintain, so I'd be curious where that > > broke down. > > Well I could go digging in the LP fossil-record for specific bugs, but > it's late, so for now I'll simply appeal to anecdata and tribal memory > of ceilometer being broken by notification changes on the nova side. > > > Versioning and ability to newer contract versions would be good too, but > > in the absence of such things we should maintain backwards compat. > > Yes, I think that was the aspiration, but not always backed up by practice > in reality.
The reason I ask about specifics is to figure out which is more important - versioned payloads, or automated testing of payload format. i.e. have we been accidentally or purposefully changing the format? If the latter, would the change have warranted a new incompatible version of the payload format? Mark. _______________________________________________ OpenStack-dev mailing list OpenStack-dev@lists.openstack.org http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openstack-dev
