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Greetings OpenStack community,

This week's meeting of the working group talked about the discussion at the API-WG "birds of a feather" at last week's summit in Barcelona. Thanks to everyone who showed up for that. I hope it was interesting and useful. Also thanks very much to all the people who participated in the API UX feedback sessions[8]. Piet has gathered the raw data together and will be producing a digested summary soon. From looking at the raw data it is clear people get a lot of value out of the APIs and while we still have work to do to make them excellent, the directions we're moving to do so (e.g., consistency, better error information) are good.

There are a few new guidelines and newly frozen guidelines this week. See below. Thanks to everyone who has helped to create and refine those.

# New guidelines

There are no new guidelines that have been merged this week.

# API guidelines that have been recently merged

No recent guidelines.

   # API guidelines proposed for freeze

The following guidelines are available for broader review by interested parties. These will be merged in one week if there is no further feedback.

* Add guidelines for complex queries
   https://review.openstack.org/#/c/386614/

* Specify time intervals based filtering queries
   https://review.openstack.org/#/c/383862/

* Clarify why CRUD is not a great descriptor
   https://review.openstack.org/#/c/392156/

# Guidelines currently under review [6]

* Define pagination guidelines
   https://review.openstack.org/#/c/390973/

* WIP Add API capabilities discovery guideline
   https://review.openstack.org/#/c/386555/

# API Impact reviews currently open

Reviews marked as APIImpact [1] are meant to help inform the working group about changes which would benefit from wider inspection by group members and liaisons. While the working group will attempt to address these reviews whenever possible, it is highly recommended that interested parties attend the API WG meetings [2] to promote communication surrounding their reviews.

To learn more about the API WG mission and the work we do, see OpenStack API Working Group [3].

Thanks for reading and see you next week!

[1] https://review.openstack.org/#/q/status:open+AND+(message:ApiImpact+OR+message:APIImpact),n,z
[2] https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/Meetings/API-WG#Agenda
[3] http://specs.openstack.org/openstack/api-wg/
[4]: https://bugs.launchpad.net/openstack-api-wg
[5]: http://eavesdrop.openstack.org/meetings/api_wg/
[6]: https://review.openstack.org/#/q/status:open+project:openstack/api-wg,n,z
[8]: https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/UX#Participate_in_a_usability_study_being_conducted_at_the_Barcelona_Summit.21

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