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On Tue, Jan 14, 2014 at 3:36 AM, Christopher Yeoh <cbkyeoh at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Tue, Jan 14, 2014 at 1:12 PM, Jay Pipes <jaypipes at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> On Tue, 2014-01-14 at 11:45 +0800, Christopher Yeoh wrote:
>> > On Tue, Jan 14, 2014 at 10:59 AM, Jay Pipes <jaypipes at gmail.com>
>> > wrote:
>> >
>> >         We don't need API extensions and they make our Compute API
>> >         laughably complex and cumbersome. We should ditch entirely the
>> >         concept of API extensions in our next Compute API major
>> >         release.
>> >
>> > I think it way too late in the cycle to make this sort of change for
>> > the V3 API.
>>
>> Completely agreed. I never said anything about v3. Specifically, in the
>> tl;dr section I said "in the next major API version" we should get rid
>> of API extensions.
>>
>>
> Ah ok I misunderstood - perhaps because V3 is still experimental I have it
> in my head that the V3 API is the next major version so was not thinking
> you
> were referring to something beyond that.
>
>
>> I've brought up the problems before with API extensions numerous times,
>> but unfortunately, I haven't voiced enough concern over the last 18
>> months or so, being lost a bit in ops-land. That said, I plan to
>> vigorously argue for scrapping all API extensions in v4 at the Juno
>> summit. This practice has just gone on way too long...
>>
>>
> So I think that would be a great idea.  I'd love for there to be
> a cross project session on APIs. I'm sure the different projects have a
> lot to
> learn from each other and I think OpenStack as a whole would really
> benefit from having
> more long term planning for the APIs so we all slowly converge to  be more
> consistent
> in both implementation and design.
>

Count me in, too.

Doug



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