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[Jorge Williams <jorge.williams@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

++Totally agree with that approach.

Looking forward to looking over the Images 2.0 API :-)

-jOrGe W.

On Oct 26, 2011, at 10:23 AM, Jay Pipes wrote:

> On Wed, Oct 26, 2011 at 1:06 AM, Mellquist, Peter
> <peter.mellquist@xxxxxx> wrote:
>> The topic of when an API should be defined is also important. Do we define an API / WADL 1) up front before the service is implemented, 2) in parallel with the impl, 3) or after the impl? I am an advocate of #1 or perhaps #2 but not #3 since #3 is just retrofitting an API on existing impl without any real API design considerations.
> 
> Wow, +10. We had a rousing discussion about this at the design
> summit... I'm in the process of finalizing the proposal for an
> OpenStack Images API 2.0 which will be sent to the mailing list
> shortly (just got some excellent feedback from Mark Nottingham this
> morning on some pieces that I'm going to change, thanks Mark!). We
> (the Glance contribs) will ask the community for feedback over a 3-4
> week RFC period. At the same time, we'll begin implementing the
> proposal in a separate branch of Glance, providing more feedback to
> the mailing list if we run into issues where the implementation of the
> proposed API is cumbersome or we recommend changes to the proposal. At
> the same time, we'll incorporate feedback as we get it on the mailing
> list and try working that feedback into the implementation we'll be
> working on.
> 
> Once the community decides to accept some iterated-over proposed 2.0
> API, we'll work with Anne to put the API into
> http://github.com/openstack/images-api and teams like the QA team can
> get busy writing tests *against the proposed 2.0 API, without worrying
> that the API will change three times a day*.
> 
> Cheers!
> -jay
> 
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