Hi, Top posting to summarize public and private discussions. As far as I see overall we agree that the "rule" needs to be less strict. But as far as I understand we have no consensus in the core team to drop the rule entirely. We still would like to keep some of level of control over heavy changes. Where heavy means anything that involves a microversion, service version, rpc version, or database migration. I imagine that these changes need an spec anyhow so the existence of a spec could be a shorthand for when the rule still applies. In the other hand this means that the implementation of specless features, bugfixes, doc enhancements, test enhancements, and refactors can be developed and approved by a single company (but still require two core reviewers). Personally I'm OK with this compromise along with the ongoing effort to add new people to the core team. As this is an unwritten rule I'm not proposing any doc changes to nova to describe this. This mail serves as the official proposal and if there is no major concerns raised against it then this will goes into effect next Tuesday (03.31.) (having an unwritten rule feels so backward to me) Cheers, gibi