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I recommend delaying to Wednesday because Monday and Tuesday are all day meetings of the Linux Legal Counsel committee.</div>
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<div><b>From: </b>Rob_Hirschfeld@Dell.com</div>
<div><b>Sent: </b>Thursday, August 7, 2014 12:06 AM</div>
<div><b>To: </b>Defcore-committee@lists.openstack.org</div>
<div><b>Subject: </b>[OpenStack-DefCore] PLEASE DISCUSS (or +1) Designated Sections Principles [No Meeting on Friday]</div>
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<p class="MsoNormal">All,</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">We did not get critical mass on the doodle calendars to justify a meeting. I am planning a meeting next Thursday (10 am?) to draft the strawman. I’ll be in SF and looking for a location (South Bay is ok).</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Josh and I have the following proposal for “designated sections principles” based on the TC’s original document:</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:14.65pt"><b><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-family:"inherit","serif"; color:#373737; border:none windowtext 1.0pt; padding:0in">Should be DESIGNATED:</span></b><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-family:"inherit","serif"; color:#373737"></span></p>
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</span></span></span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-family:"inherit","serif"; color:#373737">code provides the project external REST API, or</span></p>
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</span></span></span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-family:"inherit","serif"; color:#373737">code is shared and provides common functionality for all options, or</span></p>
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</span></span></span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-family:"inherit","serif"; color:#373737">code implements logic that is critical for cross-platform operation</span></p>
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</span></span></span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-family:"inherit","serif"; color:#373737">project design explicitly intended this section to be replaceable, or</span></p>
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</span></span></span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-family:"inherit","serif"; color:#373737">code extends the project external REST API in a new or different way, or</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">There are three important additions to these 7 points:</p>
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<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="text-indent:-.25in"><span style="">1)<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span>unless code is designated, it is assumed to be undesignated. As usual, we have a preference for smaller core.</p>
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</span></span>If the community cannot reach a fast consensus about designation then code is considered undesignated. Excepting obvious trolling, this prevents endless wrangling. If there’s a true difference of opinion then we default to undesignated.</p>
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</span></span>Loose descriptions of designated sections are acceptable. The goal is guidance on where we want upstream contributions not a code inspection police state.</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; color:#444444">Rob</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; color:#444444">______________________________</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; color:#444444">Rob Hirschfeld</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:8.0pt; font-family:"Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; color:#444444">Sr. Distinguished Cloud Solution Architect</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:8.0pt; font-family:"Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; color:#0085C3">Dell</span></b><span style="font-size:8.0pt; font-family:"Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; color:#444444"> | Cloud Edge, Data Center Solutions<b></b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:8.0pt; font-family:"Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; color:#444444">cell</span></b><span style="font-size:8.0pt; font-family:"Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; color:#AAAAAA">
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<b>blog</b> robhirschfeld.com, <b>twitter</b> @zehicle</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:8.0pt; font-family:"Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; color:#444444">Please note, I am based in the CENTRAL (-6) time zone
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