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On 27/04/15 08:29, Anne Gentle wrote:
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> 
> On Sun, Apr 26, 2015 at 7:24 PM, Tom Fifield <tom at openstack.org
> <mailto:tom at openstack.org>> wrote:
> 
>     Hi,
> 
>     This isn't my patch, but I'm just pulling this on to the mailing list
>     since I saw it languishing: https://review.openstack.org/#/c/155329/ :)
> 
>     In this patch, the sample json files are updated for new things that are
>     coming in Kilo. However, as Anne notes: "This site is updated
>     continually, but it seems like these JSON examples won't be accurate
>     until the next version comes out. What should we do in this case?"
> 
>     Then it's noted that we have folks using trunk, etc.
> 
>     So - API site versioning - how do we solve it for "all APIs and those
>     with extensions" ?
> 
> 
> This needs blueprint-level design decisions and a spec. Ideally we'll
> rid ourselves of WADL in the design as well. 
> 
> I'd like to take this on next release and I'm looking for collaborators.
> Extensible APIs make versioning especially difficult.

Of course - this is just an attempt to start the brainstorming, not fix
the specific patch :)