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On 05/18/2018 12:23 AM, Matt Riedemann wrote:
> On 5/17/2018 11:02 AM, Doug Hellmann wrote:
>> After some discussion on twitter and IRC, we've added a new session to
>> the Forum schedule for next week to discuss our options for cleaning up
>> some of the design/technical debt in our REST APIs.
> 
> Not to troll too hard here, but it's kind of frustrating to see that twitter 
> trumps people actually proposing sessions on time and then having them be rejected.
> 
>> The session description:
>>
>>    The introduction of microversions in OpenStack APIs added a
>>    mechanism to incrementally change APIs without breaking users.
>>    We're now at the point where people would like to start making
>>    old things go away, which means we need to hammer out a plan and
>>    potentially put it forward as a community goal.
>>
>> [1]https://www.openstack.org/summit/vancouver-2018/summit-schedule/events/21881/api-debt-cleanup 
>>
> 
> This also came up at the Pike PTG in Atlanta:
> 
> https://etherpad.openstack.org/p/ptg-architecture-workgroup
> 
> See the "raising the minimum microversion" section. The TODO was Ironic was 
> going to go off and do this and see how much people freaked out. What's changed 
> since then besides that not happening? Since I'm not on twitter, I don't know 
> what new thing prompted this.
> 

Jim was driving this effort, then he left and it went into limbo. I'm not sure 
we're still interested in doing that, given the overall backlog.