Re: Removal of unused plugins

2024-09-19 Thread Wei ZHOU
Hi João, Thanks for the reply. I agree that the deprecation/removal of plugins should only happen in major releases. Kind regards, Wei On Thu, Sep 19, 2024 at 1:56 PM João Jandre wrote: > Hello all, Wei > > I think that's a great initiative, we should definitely trim the > codebase of old a

Re: Removal of unused plugins

2024-09-19 Thread João Jandre
Hello all, Wei I think that's a great initiative, we should definitely trim the codebase of old and unused integration/features. However, I think we should not do this in a minor release. We could decide on what plugins should be removed and announce/deprecate them in the next release. Howeve

Re: Removal of unused plugins

2024-09-18 Thread Wei ZHOU
Thanks Byran. I think we will definitely keep the following the plugins - kvm, vmware, xenserver, simulator - ovs, vxlan, nsx, tungsten, internal-lb hyperv is not well-maintained, but I prefer to keep it. ovm/ovm3/ucs support could be dropped. for the network plugins, I do not have preferences.

Re: Removal of unused plugins

2024-09-18 Thread Wei ZHOU
Hi, It looks like the formatting is lost. Below are the plugins in red in my previous email. - plugins/hypervisors hyperv ovm ovm3 ucs - plugins/network-elements bigswitch cisco-vnmc elastic-loadbalancer netscaler stratosphere-ssp brocade-vcs juniper-contrail nicira-nvp opendaylight palo-alto

Removal of unused plugins

2024-09-18 Thread Wei ZHOU
Hi all, There are some plugins in CloudStack which have not been updated for some years. I think we should remove some of the plugins in the next releases. For hypervisors, we have a wiki page to maintain the EOL dates: https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/CLOUDSTACK/Hypervisor+and+Managem