On Wednesday, November 26, 2014 12:03:09 PM UTC-6, Rob Reynolds wrote:
> Making a switch to non-authoritative would be in the realm of possibility > for Puppet 4 given the short timeline. I think the group_membership > resource type could be something that could be done at any time, and then > the other properties deprecated and removed by Puppet 5 or 6. Given that > the group_membership is a bit larger and would need more time for > deprecations, I'd like to bring this back to just the non-authoritative. > > Would it be a beneficial switch to move to non-authoritative? > Pretty much any change to existing behavior will have negative consequences for somebody. This one will have no negative consequences for *me*, however, and I think non-authoritative would have been a better default from the beginning. When it surprises someone, the surprise behavior is less likely to take the form of damage. I'm inclined to call the change a win, but it costs me nothing. John -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Puppet Developers" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/puppet-dev/8dea3e84-a55c-4d36-83d3-0c0eeab2a117%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
