[Openstack] Service RBAC policy.json documentation and usability

Kevin L. Mitchell kevin.mitchell at rackspace.com
Tue Apr 16 20:27:46 UTC 2013


On Tue, 2013-04-16 at 15:04 -0400, boden wrote:
> Ideally all of the roles would've been documented in a centralized 
> location to make this experience more user friendly. Maybe a py 
> annotation in the source files which document the roles used by the 
> class and are then consolidated into a centralized document during the 
> doc build or something... I do realize some core projects document (a 
> portion) their roles on the wiki page, but it does not seem to be a 
> consistent process.

Yeah, this is one of the problems with the policy.json file; I've
proposed a blueprint for addressing this, but haven't had an opportunity
to really work on it.  If any other developer wants to take up the task,
see:

        https://blueprints.launchpad.net/oslo/+spec/self-documenting-policies
-- 
Kevin L. Mitchell <kevin.mitchell at rackspace.com>





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