[openstack-dev] Policy on "3rd party" APIs and Nova
Russell Bryant
rbryant at redhat.com
Fri Nov 9 16:53:17 UTC 2012
On 11/09/2012 11:38 AM, Sean Dague wrote:
> On 11/09/2012 10:34 AM, Jay Pipes wrote:
>> On 11/09/2012 09:06 AM, Thierry Carrez wrote:
>>> Mark McLoughlin wrote:
>>>> What we're proposing is:
>>>>
>>>> The previous aspirational statement that the PPB made in May 2012
>>>> about 3rd party APIs being implemented external to core stands.
>>>> However, where a given project does yet have expose a "stable,
>>>> complete, performant interface" for 3rd party APIs to build on, that
>>>> project may choose to accept proposed new APIs in the interim if it
>>>> sees fit.
>>>
>>> I find that acceptable... Do not prevent projects from accepting
>>> 3rd-party APIs if they want to, while restating that stable interface is
>>> the right end game.
>>>
>>> Note that it means you (core devs) won't be able to retreat behind a TC
>>> motion to refuse unwanted 3rd-party APIs anymore. You will have to say
>>> NO. I think that's needed anyway (the guts to say NO to unwanted,
>>> unmaintained or undocumented features) if we want to stay successful.
>>
>> +1
>
> +1 as well.
+ ... 1!
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Russell Bryant
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