[openstack-dev] [Solum] Create a source repo for the API specification?

Clayton Coleman ccoleman at redhat.com
Wed Nov 13 21:29:50 UTC 2013



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> 
> I like this idea. I'd also propose that the format of the specification be
> something machine-readable, such as API-Blueprint (a simple subset of
> markdown, apiblueprint.org , also what apiary uses, if you've ever seen
> that) or RAML (a more structured YAML-based syntax, raml.org ).
> API-Blueprint is closer to what the keystone document uses.
> 
> Making the documentation machine-readable means that it's much easier to
> verify that, in practice, the implementation of an API matches its
> specification and documentation, which is a problem that plagues many
> OpenStack projects right now.
> 

At the meeting today we discussed putting together an initial seed based around the proposed API and based mostly on the identity-api work.  Are folks ok with api-blueprint [1]

[1] http://apiblueprint.org



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