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On Fri, 2013-03-22 at 13:57 +0100, Thierry Carrez wrote:
> Mark McLoughlin wrote:
> > On Fri, 2013-03-22 at 06:23 -0400, Russell Bryant wrote:
> >> Why is the name of the extension prefixed with "RH-"?  I take it that it
> >> stands for "Red Hat".  What's the reasoning for the name?  It strikes me
> >> as quite odd.
> >>
> >> It's not a Red Hat specific feature.  If it is seen that way then it
> >> seems like it should just be removed until a solution is in place that
> >> is seen as generally useful.
> > 
> > This makes no sense to me either and neither the commit message nor the
> > review gives any real insight into the rationale.
> 
> I suspect it's historical, linked to the way extensions were named in
> the past... and not an assignment or a judgment on quality.
> 
> IMO extensions that are grown in-tree shouldn't have to use a company
> prefix, since we all vouch for them... but I'm lacking a bit of history
> and reference doc about extension naming to actually tell how much room
> we have for maneuver here.

Right ... it's an API produced by OpenStack, if it needs a namespace to
live in it should be an OpenStack namespace not a Red Hat namespace.

Cheers,
Mark.