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[Jay Pipes <jaypipes@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, Oct 11, 2011 at 10:08 AM, Mark McLoughlin <markmc@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Tue, 2011-10-11 at 16:11 +1100, Mark Nottingham wrote:
>> +1 (sorry for the lag, been travelling).
>>
>> I'd like to start two wiki pages; one collecting goals for the APIs,
>> one for collecting common patterns of use in the APIs (not rules, not
>> even guidelines).
>
> Yeah, it'd be awesome to have the common patterns described somewhere.
> It's hard to discuss potential guidelines without a crisp summary of the
> current patterns employed by the APIs.
>
> FWIW, we made some effort to do this for a bunch of related REST APIs.
> The result is neither complete or perfect, but it's something like what
> I'd imagine would work well here:
>
>  http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Cloud_APIs_REST_Style_Guide
>
> Btw, which APIs are we talking about here? Just compute and storage. Or
> image and identity too?

Definitely Images and Identity too. :)

-jay