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Greetings OpenStack community,

Today's meeting was primarily focused on a request for guidance related 
to action endpoints and on planning topics for the upcoming PTG.

Tommy Hu has sent an email to the developer list[7] describing how 
several types of actions are currently being handled through the cinder 
and nova REST interfaces. In specific this is related to how APIs are 
registered with a gateway service. The current methodology within cinder 
and nova has been to use generic action endpoints, allowing the body of 
the request to further define the action. These overloaded endpoints 
cause difficulty when using an API gateway. The SIG has taken up 
discussion about how this could be improved and what guidance can be 
created for the community. Although no firm plan has been derived yet, 
the SIG will join the conversation on the mailing list and also discuss 
the wider topic of actions at the PTG.

On the topic of the PTG, the SIG has created an etherpad[8] where agenda 
items are starting to be proposed. If you have any topic that you would 
like to discuss, or see discussed, please add it to that etherpad.

As always if you're interested in helping out, in addition to coming to 
the meetings, there's also:

* The list of bugs [5] indicates several missing or incomplete guidelines.
* The existing guidelines [2] always need refreshing to account for 
changes over time. If you find something that's not quite right, submit 
a patch [6] to fix it.
* Have you done something for which you think guidance would have made 
things easier but couldn't find any? Submit a patch and help others [6].

# Newly Published Guidelines

None this week.

# API Guidelines Proposed for Freeze

Guidelines that are ready for wider review by the whole community.

None this week.

# Guidelines Currently Under Review [3]

* Add guideline on exposing microversions in SDKs
   https://review.openstack.org/#/c/532814/

* A (shrinking) suite of several documents about doing version and 
service discovery
   Start at https://review.openstack.org/#/c/459405/

* WIP: microversion architecture archival doc (very early; not yet ready 
for review)
   https://review.openstack.org/444892

* WIP: Add API-schema guide (still being defined)
   https://review.openstack.org/#/c/524467/

# Highlighting your API impacting issues

If you seek further review and insight from the API SIG about APIs that 
you are developing or changing, please address your concerns in an email 
to the OpenStack developer mailing list[1] with the tag "[api]" in the 
subject. In your email, you should include any relevant reviews, links, 
and comments to help guide the discussion of the specific challenge you 
are facing.

To learn more about the API SIG mission and the work we do, see our wiki 
page [4] and guidelines [2].

Thanks for reading and see you next week!

# References

[1] http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openstack-dev
[2] http://specs.openstack.org/openstack/api-wg/
[3] 
https://review.openstack.org/#/q/status:open+project:openstack/api-wg,n,z
[4] https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/API_SIG
[5] https://bugs.launchpad.net/openstack-api-wg
[6] https://git.openstack.org/cgit/openstack/api-wg
[7] 
http://lists.openstack.org/pipermail/openstack-dev/2018-January/126334.html
[8[ https://etherpad.openstack.org/p/api-sig-ptg-rocky


Meeting Agenda
https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/Meetings/API-SIG#Agenda
Past Meeting Records
http://eavesdrop.openstack.org/meetings/api_sig/
Open Bugs
https://bugs.launchpad.net/openstack-api-wg