On Tue, Nov 28, 2017 at 7:38 AM, Joao Eduardo Luis <joao@xxxxxxx> wrote: > On 11/28/2017 11:54 AM, Alfredo Deza wrote: >> >> On Tue, Nov 28, 2017 at 3:12 AM, Wido den Hollander <wido@xxxxxxxx> wrote: >>> >>> >>>> Op 27 november 2017 om 14:36 schreef Alfredo Deza <adeza@xxxxxxxxxx>: >>>> >>>> >>>> For the upcoming Luminous release (12.2.2), ceph-disk will be >>>> officially in 'deprecated' mode (bug fixes only). A large banner with >>>> deprecation information has been added, which will try to raise >>>> awareness. >>>> >>> >>> As much as I like ceph-volume and the work being done, is it really a >>> good idea to use a minor release to deprecate a tool? >>> >>> Can't we just introduce ceph-volume and deprecate ceph-disk at the >>> release of M? Because when you upgrade to 12.2.2 suddenly existing >>> integrations will have deprecation warnings being thrown at them while they >>> haven't upgraded to a new major version. >> >> >> ceph-volume has been present since the very first release of Luminous, >> the deprecation warning in ceph-disk is the only "new" thing >> introduced for 12.2.2. > > > I think Wido's question still stands: why can't ceph-disk be deprecated > solely in M, and removed by N? Like I mentioned, I don't think this is set in stone (yet), but it was the idea from the beginning (See Oct 9th thread "killing ceph-disk"), and I don't think it would be terribly bad to keep ceph-disk in Mimic, but fully frozen, with no updates or bug fixes. And full removal in N The deprecation warnings need to stay for Luminous though. > > I get that it probably seems nuts to support ceph-disk and ceph-volume; and > by deprecating and removing in (less than) a full release cycle will force > people to actually move from one to the other. But we're also doing it when > roughly 4 months away from Mimic being frozen. > > This is the sort of last minute overall, core, changes that are not expected > from a project that should be as mature as Ceph. This is not some internal > feature that users won't notice - we're effectively changing the way users > deploy and orchestrate their clusters. > > > -Joao _______________________________________________ ceph-users mailing list ceph-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.ceph.com/listinfo.cgi/ceph-users-ceph.com
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