Michael McCune wrote:
given the recent trend of discussing how we can condense and streamline various parts of the openstack community, i would like to start socializing the idea of merging the API-SIG, and its artifacts/processes/members, with the SDK group.
over the last few years we have seen the activity of the API SIG greatly reduced. although there are a few outstanding guidelines that should be merged, we are having fewer and fewer contributors. additionally, although we migrated from weekly meetings down to weekly office hours, we have seen that aside from facilitating discussions for other groups these office hours are largely unnecessary.
i don't have a proposal at the moment, beyond this email, but i would appreciate any and all feedback to help us reach a place where the SIG can still react as needed to the community but also reduce its surface area. the heart of these goals is to sustain and preserve the hard work that has been done over the years, and also to recognize the diminishing availability of our membership.
As I mentioned in another email, I welcome consolidation: teams with 3-6 people are more motivating that teams of 1-2. Having API guidelines designed in close discussion with the primary API consumers makes a lot of sense too. -- Thierry Carrez (ttx)