On 10.03.2016 08:30, Mike Scherbakov wrote: > Hi folks, > in order to make a decision whether we need to support example plugins, > and if actually need them [1], I'd suggest to discuss more common things > about plugins. > > My thoughts: > 1) This is not good, that our plugins created for Fuel 8 won't even > install on Fuel 9. By default, we should assume that plugin will work at > newer version of Fuel. However, for proper user experience, I suggest to > create meta-field "validated_against", where plugin dev would provide > versions of Fuel this plugin has been tested with. Let's say, it was > tested against 7.0, 8.0. If user installs plugin in Fuel 9, I'd suggest > to show a warning saying about risks and the fact that the plugin has > not been tested against 9. We should not restrict intsallation against > 9, though.
Good idea. That should be done despite on any decision we will take. > > 2) We need to keep backward compatibility of pluggable interface for a > few releases. So that plugin developer can use pluggable interface of > version x, which was supported in Fuel 6.1. If we still support it, it > would mean (see next point) compatibility of this plugin with 6.1, 7.0, > 8.0, 9.0. If we want to deprecate pluggable interface version, we should > announce it, and basically follow standard process of deprecation. > > 3) Plugin's ability to work against multiple releases of Fuel > (multi-release support). If if..else clauses to support multiple > releases are fairly minimal, let's say take less that 10% of LOC, I'd > suggest to have this supported. Just because it will be easier for > plugin devs to support their plugin code (no code duplication, single > repo for multiple releases). > > Thoughts? > > [1] http://lists.openstack.org/pipermail/openstack-dev/2016-March/088211.html > -- > Mike Scherbakov > #mihgen > > > __________________________________________________________________________ > OpenStack Development Mailing List (not for usage questions) > Unsubscribe: openstack-dev-requ...@lists.openstack.org?subject:unsubscribe > http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openstack-dev > -- Best regards, Bogdan Dobrelya, Irc #bogdando __________________________________________________________________________ OpenStack Development Mailing List (not for usage questions) Unsubscribe: openstack-dev-requ...@lists.openstack.org?subject:unsubscribe http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openstack-dev
