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[Dolph Mathews <dolph.mathews@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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-Dolph


On 08/26/2011 02:46 PM, Mark Collier wrote:
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> On 8/26/11 1:19 PM, "Devin Carlen"<devin.carlen@xxxxxxxxx>  wrote:
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>> Hey all,
>>
>> I've been following the code vs architect debate that's been unfolding
>> over the past week or so.  Here are some of the problems I've seen from
>> my point of view.  Fundamentally, the process we have now for defining
>> API specs is broken.  I don't believe that this can be argued.  The first
>> major misstep in my opinion was forcing backwards compatibility with the
>> Rackspace API in the OpenStack API.
>>
>> I believe we should have had a Rackspace API module just like we have an
>> EC2 API module.  Then the OpenStack API wouldn't have been burdened by
>> the historical decisions around the Rackspace API.
>>
>> But that is ancient history at this point.
>>
>> But we have to look at this pragmatically, and realize that 1 year later,
>> the OpenStack API (as spec'd) is still not even close to exposing the
>> underlying core functionality that exists within Nova.  For the most
>> part, the OpenStack API is a subset of functionality of the EC2 API.
>> This is a big reason why the Dashboard project used the EC2 API for its
>> underlying communication for so long.
>>
>> There have been a lot of efforts lately to bring the feature set of the
>> OpenStack API in line with the EC2 API, and this is admirable.  But this
>> has NOT been happening at the architect level.  This has been happening
>> at the developer level, and it is being done with API "extensions" which
>> make it sound like the feature is somehow not complete or not supported
>> fully, because it's not part of the core API.
>>
>> So the question to all in favor of architecting up front:
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>> How do you explain lacking feature parity with the underlying components
>> for over a year now?
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>> In my opinion, this has been a big problem in gaining traction around the
>> OpenStack API.
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>>
>> Devin
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