Open Stack

Mark, I am perfectly OK with that. Please don't read too much into the 
location. I just wanted to move from the randomly-named etherpad to a 
more stable place and discovered there was a similarly-themed proposal 
from a while back in that wiki location. I used the template there 
because it was easy but this  is still just a working document. The PPB 
doesn't need to be involved with the details of the guidelines.

With regard to your point (1), I think the major disagreement about 
whether OpenStack has a commitment to API stability comes from outside. 
An official statement from the PPB would help. As you said, we need to 
flesh out the guidelines to help us actually implement that commitment. 
I would also add:

(3) Reinforce for every one that API stability is a priority for 
OpenStack as a whole, not individual projects.


  -David


On 7/27/2012 6:19 AM, Mark McLoughlin wrote:
> Hey,
>
> On Thu, 2012-07-26 at 16:51 -0400, David Kranz wrote:
>> In order to let interested people subscribe to and more easily follow
>> changes to this document I have moved it to
>>
>> http://wiki.openstack.org/Governance/Proposed/Policy%20for%20Changes%20to%20OpenStack%20APIs
> I don't think we could describe these guidelines as "policy" at this
> point - they're in their infancy and what we really want to do is
> encourage people to help expand these guidelines into something that is
> really useful for developers and reviewers.
>
> IMHO, the PPB could help at this point by:
>
>    1) Reinforce for everyone that the project is committed to API
>       stability. I don't see any evidence of disagreement about that, but
>       I guess stating it formally as a policy would remove any doubt.
>
>    2) Encourage the use and continued development of the guidelines
>       we've come up with so far
>
> So, how about splitting it up? Propose this statement addressing (1) and
> (2) as a policy:
>
>    http://wiki.openstack.org/Governance/Proposed/APIStability
>
> and develop the actual guidelines here:
>
>    http://wiki.openstack.org/APIChangeGuidelines
>
> Cheers,
> Mark.
>