[libvirt] Plans for next release

[Daniel P. Berrange]

On Fri, Jun 26, 2015 at 11:06:01AM +0200, Martin Kletzander wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 26, 2015 at 09:51:26AM +0100, Daniel P. Berrange wrote:
> >On Thu, Jun 25, 2015 at 09:50:42PM +0200, Martin Kletzander wrote:
> >>[adding Dan to Cc as he asked me about this right before I had to
> >>leave for an appointment]
> >>
> >>On Thu, Jun 25, 2015 at 10:08:10PM +0800, Daniel Veillard wrote:
> >>> Sorry I nearly forgot, but we should enter freeze soon to try to
> >>>hit the end of the month target. I see that Martin's APIs for admin support
> >>>has been merged in so that would be libvirt-1.3.0.
> >>
> >>Sorry from me too, but I planned to merge the admin API earlier so we
> >>can finish the design of first APIs.  Unfortunately, everything got
> >>prolonged and we're right before the freeze with only Open and Close
> >>APIs.  And because I really dislike when we create APIs that return
> >>"unsupported" just so we have them in, I'd be in favour for rather
> >>adding one useful API instead of 5 non-working ones.  The other option
> >>is to conditionally disable the code for Admin API just for the
> >>release and bump the minor version for the next release when we have
> >>some useful stuff in.
> >
> >I'd probably vote for just disabling the build of the libvirt-admin.so
> 
> And keep the admin server in the daemon?

Well we could just stop it listening on the socket too.

> 
> >library, instead of rushing to add an API. Of course that'd make our
> >version number bump amuzing, but I don't particular worry about that
> >as honestly the numbers are fairly meaningless anyway ;-)
> >
> 
> Me too.  But changing the version back is just a matter of reverting
> commit 9a8d916e89173890d7f7ce538b1ab781192b8440 and changing circa 2
> more lines.  I'll send the admin-deferring patches in a while so we
> can continue the discussion there.

Regards,
Daniel
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