[ClusterLabs Developers] Proposed future feature: multiple notification scripts

[Andrew Beekhof]

> On 8 Dec 2015, at 1:44 AM, Digimer <lists at alteeve.ca> wrote:
> 
> 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.

agreed. thats why i want it removed before release.

>> 
>> Thanks,
>> 
>> Dejan
> 
> What about having an 'enable_tech_preview_features="true"' (or
> something) option?
> 
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