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On Jan 6, 2015, at 12:46 PM, Kevin L. Mitchell <kevin.mitchell at rackspace.com> wrote:

> On Tue, 2015-01-06 at 12:19 -0600, Anne Gentle wrote:
>> I'm all for consistency. Sounds like a great case for the API Working
>> Group to document. You can propose a patch describing the way we want
>> sorting to work. 
>> 
>> 
>> See https://review.openstack.org/#/q/project:openstack/api-wg,n,z
> 
> I really think that the API WG should be responsible for the REST API
> only, TBH, and maybe for the Pythonic APIs.  Once we start talking about
> CLI options, I think that's outside the API WG's perview, and we
> probably should have that be up to CLI authors.  My thinking is that a
> REST API and a Python API are both used by developers, where we have one
> set of conventions; but when you start talking about CLI, you're really
> talking about UX, and the rules there can be vastly different.

Agreed. The scope [1] of the API WG is the HTTP (REST) API. 

We won’t be touching any language SDKs (one of which is referred to as Pythonic APIs above) or any CLIs.

Thanks,
Everett

[1] https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/API_Working_Group#Scope