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Starting from a set of goals makes sense to me as well.  I had put
together a sample set of goals for the PPB proposal a week or so ago and
some sample guidelines.  You can find them here. Standards for standards
sake don't make sense to me either.

http://wiki.openstack.org/Governance/Proposed/APIManagement-sampleGuideline
s

Mind you these are just samples.

I also think it's hard to do this on etherpad.  I think that something
like a wiki with discus like capabilities would work best.  That way we
can separate the text from the discussion a bit better.  I understand
etherpad has the chat think on the side, but it doesn't support threading.

jOrGe W.


-----Original Message-----
From: Bryan Taylor <btaylor at rackspace.com>
Date: Thu, 22 Sep 2011 13:29:07 -0500
To: <openstack at lists.launchpad.net>
Subject: Re: [Openstack] Guidelines for OpenStack APIs

>The etherpad thing is already somewhat hard to read. I wonder if we
>could try first to simply get a list of topics that we want guidelines
>on without first trying to say what the standard is. My experience
>trying to come up with such standards internally is that they will
>generate a huge amount of discussion.
>
>Also, we should have some goals for *why* we are creating standards, so
>that we can push back if people go to far, or defend it if we get push
>back by people who just don't want any standards. We don't want
>standards for standards sake, but standards that delivery some specific
>tangible goals.
>
>On 09/18/2011 10:38 PM, Jonathan Bryce wrote:
>> After the mailing list discussion around APIs a few weeks back, several
>> community members asked the Project Policy Board to come up with a
>> position on APIs. The conclusion of the PPB was that each project's PTL
>> will own the definition and implementation of the project's official
>> API, and APIs across all OpenStack projects should follow a set of
>> guidelines that the PPB will approve. This will allow the APIs to be
>> tied to the functionality in the project while ensuring a level of
>> consistency and familiarity across all projects for API consumers.
>>
>> We've started an Etherpad to collect input and comments on suggested
>> guidelines. It's a little messy but proposed guidelines are set off with
>> an asterisk (*):
>>
>> http://etherpad.openstack.org/RFC-API-Guidelines
>>
>> Feel free to add comments on the Etherpad, the list or give me feedback
>> directly.
>>
>> Jonathan.
>>
>>
>>
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