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The Tempest (QA) team certainly considers them to be public and we just 
started getting some contributions that are testing novaclient. In other 
work I am also a consumer of several of these APIs so I really hope they 
don't break.

  -David

On 3/1/2013 8:50 AM, Dolph Mathews wrote:
> I believe they should certainly be treated as public API's -- just 
> like any other library. I'd also treat them as stable if they've ever 
> been included in a versioned release. That said, I'm sure it would be 
> easy to find examples of methods & attributes within the library that 
> are not intended to be consumed externally, but perhaps either the 
> naming convention or documentation doesn't sufficiently indicate that.
>
> In keysoneclient, we're making backwards incompatible changes in a new 
> subpackage (keystoneclient.v3) while maintaing compatibility in the 
> common client code. For example, you should always be able to 
> initialize the client with a tenant_id / tenant_name, even though the 
> client will soon be using project_id / project_name internally to 
> reflect our revised lingo.
>
>
> -Dolph
>
>
> On Thu, Feb 28, 2013 at 11:07 PM, Lorin Hochstein 
> <lorin at nimbisservices.com <mailto:lorin at nimbisservices.com>> wrote:
>
>     Here's an issue that came up in the operators doc sprint this week.
>
>     Let's say I wanted to write some Python scripts using the APIs
>     exposed by the python-*client packages. As a concrete example,
>     let's say I wrote a script that uses the keystone Python API
>     that's exposed in the python-keystoneclient package:
>
>     https://github.com/lorin/openstack-ansible/blob/master/playbooks/keystone/files/keystone-init.py
>
>     Are these APIs "public" or "stable"  in some meaningful way?
>     (i.e., can I count on this script still working across minor
>     release upgrades)? Or should they be treated like "internal" APIs
>     that could be changed at any time in the future? Or is this not
>     defined at all?
>
>     Lorin
>
>
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