Re: [Openstack-poc] 3rd Party APIs

2012-05-08 Thread Mark McLoughlin
Hey, I just realised there's a thread on the openstack-poc list about how OpenStack should view implementations of APIs other than the OpenStack API: https://lists.launchpad.net/openstack-poc/msg00448.html (PPB members - please note that other folks can't subscribe to the POC list. If you

Re: [Openstack-poc] 3rd Party APIs

2012-05-06 Thread Joe Heck
The reason I said c and not b is because there may be something in the future that we see that really, really needs to belong in the kernel of an OpenStack system. By choosing B, categorically it seemed like an assertion that none of these 3rd party APIs (or plugins or whatever) could *ever*

Re: [Openstack-poc] 3rd Party APIs

2012-05-03 Thread Thierry Carrez
Joshua McKenty wrote: I'm a fan of c), where the officialness is tied to a committed organization or team that is keeping the code up-to-date and tested. I'd also be a fan of making that a per-release designation, with an easy renewal if the commitment is still in place. Generally, a

Re: [Openstack-poc] 3rd Party APIs

2012-05-03 Thread Brian Waldon
I'd definitely go for option c here. I'm one of those Core Developers you mention that wants less code in the core repos. We also need to make sure the right people are maintaining that API code, which aren't necessarily the *-core teams. On May 2, 2012, at 1:02 PM, Vishvananda Ishaya wrote:

Re: [Openstack-poc] 3rd Party APIs

2012-05-03 Thread Jay Pipes
On 05/03/2012 04:08 AM, Thierry Carrez wrote: Joshua McKenty wrote: I'm a fan of c), where the officialness is tied to a committed organization or team that is keeping the code up-to-date and tested. I'd also be a fan of making that a per-release designation, with an easy renewal if the

Re: [Openstack-poc] 3rd Party APIs

2012-05-03 Thread Devin Carlen
+1, primarily by process of elimination. The other options seem either too permissive or too strict. I think our job is to provide a way for the ecosystem to develop and give people a place and category for these projects to live, but not to micromanage every piece of the ecosystem. Devin

Re: [Openstack-poc] 3rd Party APIs

2012-05-03 Thread John Dickinson
On May 3, 2012, at 1:16 PM, Jay Pipes wrote: The term recommended comes with a lot of baggage :) I don't want plugins to be recommended or suggested -- at least by the community; companies should feel free to recommend or suggest whatever they feel is best for their distro or deployment.