[ClusterLabs Developers] Proposed future feature: multiple notification scripts

[Digimer]

On 07/12/15 05:07 AM, Dejan Muhamedagic wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> On Thu, Dec 03, 2015 at 11:29:24AM -0600, Ken Gaillot wrote:
>> On 12/02/2015 05:26 PM, Andrew Beekhof wrote:
>>>
>>>> On 3 Dec 2015, at 10:23 AM, Ken Gaillot <kgaillot at redhat.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> For backward compatibility, the (brand new!) notification-agent and
>>>> notification-recipient cluster properties would be kept as deprecated
>>>> shortcuts for a single notify script and recipient.
>>>
>>> Actually, that didn't make it into an upstream release.
>>> So we could just pretend it never happened :)
>>>
>>> Sure its in RHEL but we haven’t advertised it yet and it can be our problem to do backwards compatibility for - no need to inflict that on upstream.
>>
>> OK, we'll leave notifications as an undocumented/unsupported technology
>> preview in 1.1.14, with significant interface changes expected in a
>> later version. Users can play with it if they want, but with the
>> understanding that their configs/scripts will need changes to work with
>> future versions.
> 
> It is overly optimistic to expect this. We have a problem people
> reading any documentation at all, let alone whether a certain
> thing is technology preview. I'd be wary of adding new features
> in a released version for which interface is going to change.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Dejan

What about having an 'enable_tech_preview_features="true"' (or
something) option?

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