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On Wed, 24 Sep 2014 13:05:09 -0400
Jay Pipes <jaypipes at gmail.com> wrote:

> On 09/24/2014 12:48 PM, Everett Toews wrote:
> > On Sep 24, 2014, at 9:42 AM, Dean Troyer <dtroyer at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> >> I'll bring an API consumer's perspective.
> >
> > +1
> >
> > I’d bring an API consumer’s perspective as well.
> >
> > Looks like there’s lots of support for an API WG. What’s the next
> > step?
> >
> > Form a WG under the User Committee [1] or is there something more
> > appropriate?
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Everett
> >
> > [1]
> > https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/Governance/Foundation/UserCommittee#Working_Groups
> 
> Whatever it ends up being, it needs to have some teeth to it.
> Otherwise, we're going to end up in the exact same place we're in
> now, where each project does something slightly different.

I think its more an issue around actually having guidelines and
educating people where to find them than needing teeth to enforce them.
Where I've seen variation in the APIs in Nova its been primarily because
people haven't known what the conventions are than anything else. 

Chris