Proxmox supported versions (and whether to deprecate/drop them)

[Lithimlin]

To work on some issues, I am currently refactoring the proxmox module.

While working on that, it came up again and again that technically, any version of Proxmox, even below 4.0 is supported. This raised the question for me on whether this is 1) necessary or 2) even desirable. The Debian versions those old Proxmox versions are based on are long at their EOL and get no more (security) updates.

This particularly came up when trying to figure out how the storage parameter works now.
In the module docs, it says for the disk parameter:

Older versions of Proxmox will accept a numeric value for size using the storage parameter to automatically choose which storage to allocate from [...]

And while I can find the storage parameter in the API Docs (see the POST tab), I cannot figure out if/for what it is even still being used now. This is not necessarily a problem regarding supported versions, but further complicates the existing issues.

To summarize, my main questions are:

1. Is support of all Proxmox versions necessary?
2. Is support of all Proxmox versions desirable?
3. Does anyone know where I can check what the storage parameter is being used for since the numeric value for disk/rootfs is no longer valid?
4. Additionally, does anyone know when this behaviour changed? I could narrow it down to somewhere between versions 4.0 and 5.0 using the Proxmox Wiki (old post vs new post).

[mariolenz]

I'm not sure if this is the best place for a question you have on a specific module in a specific collection.

I suggest to ask directly in the collection, on Matrix or in the forum.

[Lithimlin]

I'll check out the Forum later and maybe just post it to Matrix, though it would probably get lost there fairly quickly.

[felixfontein]

but found an announcement there that said to post discussions here.

Can you please link to that announcement? That should be taken down ASAP.

The right place for such a discussion is the Forum, since there are no active maintainers for the proxmox modules and it's hard to get any opinion from other users or (potential) contributors in the community.general repository.

[mariolenz]

I'd posted an issue in the collection before, but found an announcement there that said to post discussions here.

ansible-collections/community.general#8407 and ansible-collections/community.general#9199? I don't find any comment in those issues that redirects you here. I might be wrong, though, because I've only had a very quick look.

Could you please add a link to the announcement you've mentioned?

[Lithimlin]

ansible-collections/community.general#4087

I might have misunderstood the post though then. It says to not hold any (unnecessary) discussions in issues and I took that to mean that discussions should not be issues. I'll reopen my original issue then.

[felixfontein]

That sentence was meant for discussions about announcements made in news-for-maintainers. I closed that issue since it's pretty outdated anyway.