lazr.restful

Code review comment for lp:~leonardr/lazr.restful/multiversion-pagetest

multiversion-pagetest
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Paul Hummer (rockstar) wrote on 2010-02-09:

<rockstar> leonardr, actually, that would be a problem, wouldn't it?
<rockstar> beta should be newer than 3.0, which is newer than 2.0, etc.
<leonardr> rockstar: actually beta is the _earliest_ version, but 3.0 is newer than 2.0, etc
<rockstar> leonardr, what is meant by "earliest" though.
<rockstar> It shouldn't mean that 1.0 overrides it.
<leonardr> rockstar: well, right now launchpad has a 'beta' web service and nothing else
<leonardr> now that i have multi-version working i'm going to create a '1.0' version that's different
<rockstar> leonardr, yes, but then we'll go 1.0, and beta will be what 2.0 is created from.
<leonardr> that's what i mean by saying beta is the earliest
<leonardr> rockstar: no, we do have a 'floating development version', but in launchpad's case that is called 'trunk'
<leonardr> 'beta' is a specific version
<leonardr> that will become obsolete and stop changing
<rockstar> leonardr, huh, that's odd.
<rockstar> leonardr, okay, I guess it makes sense to have 1.0 supersede beta then.
<leonardr> rockstar: if you are confused it's likely others will be confused and think that 'beta' is the permanent cutting edge
<leonardr> but i don't know what we can do about that
<leonardr> it's more like gmail, which was in 'beta' for 5 years and now it's not
<leonardr> the only differnece is that we have to keep 'beta' around for a while
<rockstar> leonardr, yeah. Having worked on the other side of the REST API (on Tarmac), when the API changes now, baby Jesus cries.
<leonardr> thus the multi-version project
<rockstar> leonardr, I think "trunk" for bleeding edge is probably misnamed, since it's likely it could be in production as "trunk"
<leonardr> rockstar: it's not too late to change it
<leonardr> if you have a better idea
<rockstar> leonardr, well, just what I was assuming where beta is the floating development version.
<leonardr> my only alternative is 'dev' or 'development'
<rockstar> leonardr, are we going to release an API version on every release of Launchpad?
<leonardr> rockstar: no, API versions will correspond roughly with ubuntu releases
<leonardr> and will be retired at the same rate as ubuntu releases
<rockstar> Ah, okay.
<rockstar> So maybe "dev" would be appropriate, since (at this point in time), it would correspond to the scripts in Lucid.
<leonardr> flacoste: ^- what do you think?
<leonardr> incidentally, flacoste, the multiversion lazr.restful work is complete as of yesterday
<flacoste> leonardr: i saw good progress on that, great! but complete? i guess we still need some changes in the client support, no?
<flacoste> leonardr: btw, i don't have an opinion on dev vs trunk
<flacoste> we could call it 'unstable'
<leonardr> flacoste: yes, we need to add multiversion to lazr.restfulclient

<rockstar> leonardr, actually, that would be a problem, wouldn't it?
<rockstar> beta should be newer than 3.0, which is newer than 2.0, etc.
<leonardr> rockstar: actually beta is the _earliest_ version, but 3.0 is newer than 2.0, etc
<rockstar> leonardr, what is meant by "earliest" though.
<rockstar> It shouldn't mean that 1.0 overrides it.
<leonardr> rockstar: well, right now launchpad has a 'beta' web service and nothing else
<leonardr> now that i have multi-version working i'm going to create a '1.0' version that's different
<rockstar> leonardr, yes, but then we'll go 1.0, and beta will be what 2.0 is created from.
<leonardr> that's what i mean by saying beta is the earliest
<leonardr> rockstar: no, we do have a 'floating development version', but in launchpad's case that is called 'trunk'
<leonardr> 'beta' is a specific version
<leonardr> that will become obsolete and stop changing
<rockstar> leonardr, huh, that's odd.
<rockstar> leonardr, okay, I guess it makes sense to have 1.0 supersede beta then.
<leonardr> rockstar: if you are confused it's likely others will be confused and think that 'beta' is the permanent cutting edge
<leonardr> but i don't know what we can do about that
<leonardr> it's more like gmail, which was in 'beta' for 5 years and now it's not
<leonardr> the only differnece is that we have to keep 'beta' around for a while
<rockstar> leonardr, yeah.  Having worked on the other side of the REST API (on Tarmac), when the API changes now, baby Jesus cries.
<leonardr> thus the multi-version project
<rockstar> leonardr, I think "trunk" for bleeding edge is probably misnamed, since it's likely it could be in production as "trunk"
<leonardr> rockstar: it's not too late to change it
<leonardr> if you have a better idea
<rockstar> leonardr, well, just what I was assuming where beta is the floating development version.
<leonardr> my only alternative is 'dev' or 'development'
<rockstar> leonardr, are we going to release an API version on every release of Launchpad?
<leonardr> rockstar: no, API versions will correspond roughly with ubuntu releases
<leonardr> and will be retired at the same rate as ubuntu releases
<rockstar> Ah, okay.
<rockstar> So maybe "dev" would be appropriate, since (at this point in time), it would correspond to the scripts in Lucid.
<leonardr> flacoste: ^- what do you think?
<leonardr> incidentally, flacoste, the multiversion lazr.restful work is complete as of yesterday
<flacoste> leonardr: i saw good progress on that, great! but complete? i guess we still need some changes in the client support, no?
<flacoste> leonardr: btw, i don't have an opinion on dev vs trunk
<flacoste> we could call it 'unstable'
<leonardr> flacoste: yes, we need to add multiversion to lazr.restfulclient

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