Re: [netmod] Fwd: New Version Notification for draft-lengyel-netmod-yang-instance-data-01.txt

Joe Clarke <jclarke@cisco.com> Tue, 26 June 2018 19:42 UTC

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Subject: Re: [netmod] Fwd: New Version Notification for draft-lengyel-netmod-yang-instance-data-01.txt
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On 6/26/18 11:38, Balazs Lengyel wrote:
> Any opinions on Rob's suggestion about a free-text versioning string?
> I am neutral on this.

Like I mentioned, I would use this for YANG Catalog input, and I would
want MD around yang-library instance data.  That MD would include the
vendor, platform, and version of software.

I'm not asking for all of these to be standardized, though.  I would
just want a way to extend the MD as needed.

Joe

> 
> regards Balazs
> 
> On 6/26/2018 5:31 PM, Robert Wilton wrote:
>> On 26/06/2018 16:20, Balazs Lengyel wrote:
>>> On 6/26/2018 4:07 PM, Robert Wilton wrote:
>>>>>>>>        7) It might want to include a semantic version number for an
>>>>>>>>        instance-data-set, depending on whether the YANG
>>>>>>>> versioning discussions
>>>>>>>>        ends up.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>      BALAZS: Yes I would like to. However I am not exactly clear
>>>>>>>> on what does
>>>>>>>>      backwards compatibility mean for instance data.
>>>>>>>>      Data MAY NOT be removed or changed only added.  ???
>>>>>>>>      Who would use the semver numbers ???
>>>>>>> What does the version number mean? Every change of instance data
>>>>>>> in an
>>>>>>> instacne-data-set leads to a new version number? What is a bug
>>>>>>> fix in
>>>>>>> this sense? What is a non-backwards compatible change of instance
>>>>>>> data?
>>>>>>> I am left a bit puzzled.
>>>>>> Probably I don't mean semantic version.  But often files have
>>>>>> versioning, or
>>>>>> revision, information associated with them.  This can be muxed
>>>>>> into the file
>>>>>> name/path, but it also seems like potentially useful metadata, and
>>>>>> being
>>>>>> able to handle this generically in a consistent way might be
>>>>>> beneficial.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> As an example, perhaps the capability information related to S/W
>>>>>> release
>>>>>> 1.2.4, etc.
>>>>> We need to separate a version number of the instance data from the a
>>>>> version number (or version context) that may be needed in order to
>>>>> understand what a YANG (module, path) tuple means if we move to a
>>>>> different YANG versioning scheme. The later I agree would be needed,
>>>>> the former I am less sure of - at least if we talk semantic version
>>>>> numbers.
>>>> Yes, I agree with the need for the latter, that may entail listing
>>>> the versions of the modules in the meta-data.
>>>>
>>>> But what I was actually referring to was the former, and thinking
>>>> more of it is just being a string field in the meta-data with a well
>>>> defined name, that is optional to populate.  Actually, I see the
>>>> current definition already has a revision with a date and
>>>> description string.  This is roughly along the lines of what I was
>>>> thinking of for versioning (although I'm not sure why this should be
>>>> a list rather than just a pair of leaves).
>>>>
>>>> Thanks,
>>>> Rob
>>> BALAZS:  IMHO if we want to use versioning (semver) to version the
>>> instance-data-set itself we first need to understand what backwards
>>> compatibility means for an instance data set.
>> So, I'm suggesting versioning, but not semver.  Just a string version
>> field.  E.g. for XR I would just put in the XR release number "R4.5.1"
>> or similar.
> 
> Balazs Lengyel                       Ericsson Hungary Ltd.
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