[pbs-devel] [PATCH] api: sync: list `all` instead of only `pull` synch jobs by default

[Thomas Lamprecht]

Am 04.11.25 um 09:58 schrieb Christian Ebner:
> On 11/4/25 8:34 AM, Hannes Laimer wrote:
>> There is no reason to still default to only listing pulling jobs.
> 
> Well, this was overlooked for PBS 4.0, but I'm afraid the change needs to be postponed to PBS version 5.0, as this is a breaking API change.
> 

This really just listing the specific job types IIUC?

Returning new stuff is generally not a breaking change, here it was done
to avoid confusing clients that are to old [0]. Albeit I'm now actually
wondering which client can get confused? Third party integrations? As
our CLI client has no support for managing sync jobs from a PBS, and the
web UI might only have issues when a outdated version was loaded from the
cache.

Anyhow, even if I'm overlooking something now: while we want to have good
forward compatibility support, especially for point releases from the same
major release, this was introduced for PBS 3.3 about year ago. This means
all officially supported clients and PBS support it, and as it's not related
to backup protocol (write or restore), I really do not think we should let
us hold back here, as in practice nothing will change w.r.t. compat compared
to changing this already for 4.0 proper, and – again, if I do not miss
something – this change really seems unproblematic in general.

[0]: commit 403ad1f6d ("api: admin: sync: add optional 'all' sync type for
     listing")