[openstack-dev] [all][specs] Please stop doing specs for any changes in projects

Clint Byrum clint at fewbar.com
Mon Jun 30 21:37:30 UTC 2014


Excerpts from Boris Pavlovic's message of 2014-06-30 14:11:08 -0700:
> Hi all,
> 
> Specs are interesting idea, that may be really useful, when you need to
> discuss large topics:
> 1) work on API
> 2) Large refactoring
> 3) Large features
> 4) Performance, scale, ha, security issues that requires big changes
> 
> And I really dislike idea of adding spec for every patch. Especially when
> changes (features) are small, don't affect too much, and they are optional.
> It really kills OpenStack. And will drastically slow down process of
> contribution and reduce amount of contributors.

Who says there needs to be a spec for every patch?

I agree with your items above. Any other change is likely just fixing a
bug.



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