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On Fri, Jul 26, 2013 at 10:03 AM, Brad Topol <btopol at us.ibm.com> wrote:

> Agreed, but the history portion of what you wrote that that takes us from
> the beginning to where we are now  today has all been implemented.  That
> portion I thought could be added to the project as it really tells a nice
> narrative of why what you see in the keystone code base is actually there.
>

There is room for this type of narrative in the documentation, but I prefer
historical context such as [1] to future-looking statements. I definitely
like the idea of answering "why" and the Swift example does it nicely.

Anne

1. http://docs.openstack.org/developer/swift/overview_ring.html#history


>
> Thanks.
>
> Brad
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> From:        Adam Young <ayoung at redhat.com>
> To:        openstack-dev at lists.openstack.org
> Date:        07/25/2013 09:59 PM
> Subject:        Re: [openstack-dev] A vision for Keystone
> ------------------------------
>
>
>
> On 07/19/2013 10:56 AM, Brad Topol wrote:
> Adam,
>
> Your essay below is outstanding!  Any chance part of it could be included
> within the keystone project documentation?  I think having it in the
> project  and at folks fingertips would really help folks that are trying to
> get up to speed with keystone!
> Thanks for the input.  I think it could be included in the future, but we
> have along way to go to implement this vision, and we are moving toward it
> one step at a time. When we are closer, I will revise the essay to reflect
> reality and maybe more relevant details.  At that point, yes, it can be
> part of the documentation.
>
>
>
> Thanks again for writing this up!
>
> --Brad
>
> Brad Topol, Ph.D.
> IBM Distinguished Engineer
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> From:        Adam Young *<ayoung at redhat.com>* <ayoung at redhat.com>
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> Date:        07/18/2013 02:21 PM
> Subject:        [openstack-dev] A vision for Keystone
>  ------------------------------
>
>
>
> I wrote up an essay that, I hope, explains where Keystone is headed as
> far as token management.
> *
> **http://adam.younglogic.com/2013/07/a-vision-for-keystone/*<http://adam.younglogic.com/2013/07/a-vision-for-keystone/>
>
> It is fairly long (2000 words) but I attempted to make it readable, and
> to provide the context for what we are doing.
>
> There are several blueprints for this work, many of which have already
> been implemented. There is at least one that I still need to write up.
>
> This is not new stuff.  It is just an attempt to cleanly lay out the story.
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