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Re: Guidelines for OpenStack APIs

 

++ Like the idea..yes I think we should aim to include all OpenStack APIs -- whatever that means :-)

-jOrGe W.

On Oct 11, 2011, at 9:52 AM, Jay Pipes wrote:

> 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
> 
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