Re: Deprecating intents in Modularity

[Petr Pisar]

V Wed, Nov 02, 2022 at 04:45:41PM +0100, Petr Pisar napsal(a):
>  do you know intents
>
> <https://github.com/fedora-modularity/libmodulemd/blob/8f7543f712c4aeb8afd...
[...]
>  
>  * I was told that even RHEL, from version 9, does not use system purposes and
>  that it's quite possible that the interface will disappear from
>  subscription-manager.
>   
A correction: A subscription experience product manager replied after sending
my original message that "System Purpose isn’t going away [... it] is used by
the subscriptions service [...] to show the user their usage." In other words,
system purposes will be kept in subscription-manger for statistical purposes.

>  Summing all these facts suggests that intents in Modularity are
> completely
>  unused and their future won't be better. Therefore I'd like to deprecate
>  intents in Modularity.
>  
>  What would it mean? The current YAML specification for module-defaults would
>  warn that intents are deprecated. Any future tools or speciciations for
>  modularity would not implement the intents.
>  
>  Does anybody have a problem with deprecating intents?
>   
Thanks for your replies. I did not receive any negative feedback. Therefore
I deprecated intents in modulemd-defaults-v1 specification and in
libmodulemd API
<https://github.com/fedora-modularity/libmodulemd/commit/af23bff3fd51319ee...;.

-- Petr