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[Doug Hellmann <doug.hellmann@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

>From what I understand, it is unusual to support mixing components from
different releases like that. Am I wrong?

Doug


On Thu, May 30, 2013 at 3:29 PM, Tim Bell <Tim.Bell@xxxxxxx> wrote:

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> Doug,****
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> Can you advise on what the plan/policy will be for Havana ?****
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> **-          **Will I be able to run Havana core components such as Nova
> with Grizzly ceilometer ?****
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> **-          **Will I be able to run Havana ceilometer with Grizzly core
> components (with reduced functionality compared to the Havana core
> components) ?****
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> Tim****
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> *From:* Openstack [mailto:openstack-bounces+tim.bell=
> cern.ch@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] *On Behalf Of *Doug Hellmann
> *Sent:* 30 May 2013 18:59
> *To:* openstack@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> *Subject:* [Openstack] [ceilometer] support for older versions of
> ceilometer****
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> The ceilometer team has had a few requests for help with older versions of
> ceilometer or running the grizzly version of ceilometer with older versions
> of other OpenStack components lately. We appreciate the level of interest
> in the project but, as much as we would like to, unfortunately we are not
> always able to help everyone with these "mixed" configurations. During the
> early phases of our development we tried to maintain compatibility with
> folsom, even well into the grizzly development cycle. We are no longer
> doing that, however, and so to make clear what support we can offer, the
> ceilometer team has put together the statement below. It has been added to
> our documentation, and we are posting here to make sure everyone has a
> chance to see it.****
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> Regards,****
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> Doug****
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> The ceilometer team has limited capacity to provide support for older
> versions of the project. Because the project graduated from incubation
> around the time of the grizzly release, that is the first version for which
> we will provide regular ongoing support following the standard deprecation
> cycle for OpenStack [1]. The grizzly version of ceilometer  cannot be
> installed on the same server with earlier versions of OpenStack because of
> conflicting package requirements, but is API compatible with the folsom
> release if installed separately.****
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> [1] https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/StableBranch****
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