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Weekly API Working Group Meeting

This is a weekly meeting to discuss the OpenStack API. It's intended as a forum for:

• Standardizing the OpenStack project APIs and creating guidelines and rules for projects to follow when designing their REST APIs
• Feedback from users as to the usability of OpenStack REST APIs
• Discussion of future directions of OpenStack APIs

Meetings

• Meeting Time: Weekly, Thursday at 16:00UTC/00:00 UTC (alternating)
• IRC channel: #openstack-meeting-3
• MeetBot Manual http://meetbot.debian.net/Manual.html
• Chaired by: Jay Pipes | Everett Toews | Any API WG Member

Next Meeting

Thursday 2015-08-06 at 00:00UTC

Agenda

• #startmeeting api wg
• #topic agenda
  • #link https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/Meetings/API-WG#Agenda
• #topic previous meeting action items
  • #link http://eavesdrop.openstack.org/meetings/api_wg/2015/api_wg.2015-07-09-00.00.html
• new topics
• #topic guidelines
  • #link https://review.openstack.org/#/q/status:open+project:openstack/api-wg,n,z
  • new frozen guidelines
    • No project uses f_ prefix in filter params [1]
    • RFC 5789 doesn't specify certain uses of PUT [2]
  • Add new guideline for HTTP Headers [3]
    • create examples for keystone
    • should these be registered?
    • how to provide guidance on migrating headers?
  • PATCH guidance
    • rfc6902 and partial resource update
• #topic guideline pipeline
  • #link http://ghostcloud.net/openstack_gerrit_dashboards/dashboard_api-wg.html
• #topic merge guidelines
  • we need to not use -2 as a freeze methodology
• #topic APIImpact
  • #link https://review.openstack.org/#/q/status:open+AND+(message:ApiImpact+OR+message:APIImpact),n,z
• #endmeeting

Previous Meetings

• 2014
• 2015