2014-10-13 16:52 GMT+02:00 Jay Pipes <jaypi...@gmail.com>: > On 10/10/2014 02:05 AM, Christopher Yeoh wrote: >> >> I agree with what you've written on the wiki page. I think our priority >> needs to be to flesh out >> https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/Governance/Proposed/APIGuidelines >> so we have something to reference when reviewing specs. At the moment I >> see that document as something anyone should be able to document a >> project's API convention even if they conflict with another project for >> the moment. Once we've got a fair amount of content we can start as a >> group resolving >> any conflicts. > > > Agreed that we should be fleshing out the above wiki page. How would you > like us to do that? Should we have an etherpad to discuss individual topics? > Having multiple people editing the wiki page offering commentary seems a bit > chaotic, and I think we would do well to have the Gerrit review process in > place to handle proposed guidelines and rules for APIs. See below for > specifics on this... > >> Speaking of the wiki page, I wrote it very matter-of-factly. As if >> this is the way things are. They’re not. The wiki page is just a >> starting point. If something was missed, add it. If something can be >> improved, improve it. Let’s try to keep it simple though. >> >> One problem with API WG members reviewing spec proposals that affect the >> API is finding the specs in the first place across many different >> projects repositories. > > > I've said for a while now that I would love to have separate repositories -- > ala the Keystone API in the openstack/identity-api repository -- that > contains specifications for APIs in a single format (APIBlueprint was > suggested at one point, but Swagger 2.0 seems to me to have more upside). > > I also think it would be ideal to have an openstack/openstack-api repo that > would house guidelines and rules that this working group came up with, along > with examples of appropriate usage. This repo would function very similar to > the openstack/governance [1] repo that the TC uses to flesh out proposals on > community, release management, and governance changes. > > If people are OK with this idea, I will go ahead and create the repo and add > the wiki page content as the initial commit, then everyone can simply submit > patches to the document(s) using the normal Gerrit process, and we can > iterate on these things using the same tools as other repositories.
Thanks Jay, I much prefer this idea. I concerned how to handle API rule conflicts if using a wiki page. eg: Someone prefer CamelCase names as attributes but the other does snake_case. If using gerrit, we can propose favorite rules as each commit and we can discuss them on it. That would be nice to build a consensus for the rules. Thanks Ken _______________________________________________ OpenStack-dev mailing list OpenStack-dev@lists.openstack.org http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openstack-dev