[openstack-dev] [all][specs] Please stop doing specs for any changes in projects

Clint Byrum clint at fewbar.com
Wed Jul 2 17:33:57 UTC 2014


Excerpts from Dolph Mathews's message of 2014-07-01 10:02:13 -0700:
> The argument has been made in the past that small features will require
> correspondingly small specs. If there's a counter-argument to this example
> (a "small" feature requiring a relatively large amount of spec effort), I'd
> love to have links to both the spec and the resulting implementation so we
> can discuss exactly why the spec was an unnecessary additional effort.
> 

Indeed. The line to be drawn isn't around the size, IMO, but around
communication.  Nobody has the bandwidth to watch all of the git
logs. Nobody has the bandwidth to poll all of the developers what has
changed in the interfaces available. So the line for me is whether or
not users and operators will need to know something is under way and
may want to comment _before_ a change to an interface is made.



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