[glue-wg] VOTE by 8/1: GLUE 2.1 for describing cloud resources?

[Maarten.Litmaath at cern.ch]

Hi Maria,

> > > What you have to decide is when to start publishing information in 2.1. There
> > is no way to know whether BDIIs have upgraded or not. The only thing we
> > currently publish in the BDII is the version of the bdii package, and this package
> > is not affected here. So at some point you may start publishing GLUE 2.1 and
> > depending on which BDII you query you may see this information or not.
> > 
> > Therefore we need a new BDII release along _with_ the new schema.
> 
> As I said in my first reply to Salvatore, we need to release a new version of the glue-schema package, if this is what you mean by "a new BDII release".

No, we also need to increase the BDII version.

To avoid the chaos that would otherwise ensue.