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Hi Stackers,

OK, so Matthew Gilliard and Alex Xu have volunteered to be the Nova 
team's liaisons to the API working group. Big thank you to Matthew and 
Alex for volunteering for this important role.

I've created a wiki page [1] that details the responsibilities of these 
liaisons. If these duties work out for Nova, we'll recommend other 
projects pick them up.

Here are the responsibilities that the Nova/API working group liaisons have:

1. Monitor the active patch queue in nova (and nova-specs) and look out 
for any patch that adds or changes the REST API

2. For each patch collected in #1, determine if the constructs used in 
the patch (or proposed spec) match the guidance currently laid out in 
the API working group repo's guidance documents.

3. If the patch does NOT match the guidance from the API working group, 
do a code review on the patch pointing to the guidance from the API 
working group, and ask the author to align with that guidance. Include 
in your research patches to the API working group that may actually be 
in review and not merged. (An example of this recently occurred with 
Sergey Nikitin's re-proposed instance tagging spec: 
https://review.openstack.org/#/c/177112/. See Ryan Brown's reference to 
an in-progress API working group guidance on tagging)

4. If there is NO guidance in the API working group repo for a 
particular proposed API change or addition, the liaison should 
**either** create a proposed patch to the API working group with 
guidance that clarifies the missing functionality that is introduced in 
the new Nova patch or spec patch, and bring the proposed guidance to the 
attention of the API working group. **or** the liaison should working 
with a member of the API working group to draft such a guideline. The 
liaison should mark the corresponding Nova patch with a -1 Code Review 
vote with a link to the proposed guideline, noting that the patch should 
be put on hold (Work In Progress) until the guideline is merged.

Best,
-jay

[1] https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/Nova/APIWGLiaisons