On 03/04/2016 08:37 AM, Ruby Loo wrote:
Hijacked from ' [openstack-dev] [ironic] Remember to follow RFE process'
thread:

        > Should we revert the patch [1] for now? (Disclaimer. I haven't looked 
at the
        > patch itself. But I don't think I should have to, to know what the API
        > change is.)
        >

        Thanks for calling it out Ruby, that's unfortunate that the
        patch was
        merged without the RFE being approved. About reverting the patch I
        think we shouldn't do that now because the patch is touching the API
        and introducing a new microversion to it.


    Exactly. I've -2'ed the revert, as removing API version is even
    worse than landing a change without an RFE approved. Let us make
    sure to approve RFE asap, and then adjust the code according to it.


This brings up another issue, which I recall discussing before. Did we
decide that we'd never revert something that touches the
API/microversion? It might be good to have guidelines on this if we
don't already. IF the API is incorrect? If the API could be improved? If
the API was only in master for eg 48 hours?

I believe you need to treat master as if it's deployed to production. So once an API change is released, 'fixing' it needs to be done like any other API change - with a microversion bump and appropriate backwards compat.

(For instance, I have a CI/CD pipeline merging from master every hour and doing a deploy - so 48 hours is a long time ago)

Monty

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