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On Wed, Jun 24, 2015 at 11:28:59AM +0100, Nikola Đipanov wrote:
> Hey Nova,
> 
> I'll cut to the chase and keep this email short for brevity and clarity:
> 
> Specs don't work! They do nothing to facilitate good design happening,
> if anything they prevent it. The process layered on top with only a
> minority (!) of cores being able to approve them, yet they are a prereq
> of getting any work done, makes sure that the absolute minimum that
> people can get away with will be proposed. This in turn goes and
> guarantees that no good design collaboration will happen. To add insult
> to injury, Gerrit and our spec template are a horrible tool for
> discussing design. Also the spec format itself works for only a small
> subset of design problems Nova development is faced with.

I do not consider specs don't work, personnaly I refer myself to this
relatively good documentation [1] instead of to dig in code to
remember how work a feature early introduced.

I guess we have some efforts to do about the level of details we want
before a spec is approved. We should just consider the general
idea/design, options introduced, API changed and keep in mind the
contributors who will implement the feature can/have to update it
during the developpement phase.

[1] http://specs.openstack.org/openstack/nova-specs/specs/kilo/

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