Sam Johnston wrote:
On Tue, Sep 8, 2009 at 7:20 PM, David Lutterkort
<lutter(a)redhat.com
<mailto:lutter@redhat.com>> wrote:
On Mon, 2009-09-07 at 18:28 -0400, Bob McWhirter wrote:
> I personally think that we might want to leverage the community
> that'll also be building around REST-* (
http://jboss.org/reststar).
> There, the intent it to build RESTful APIs (but not necessarily
> implementations) for things like messaging, transactions, and
storage.
Very cool; the world will definitely be a better place with agreement on
API's in those areas.
This all sounds very similar to my vision for OGF's OCCI
<
http://www.occi-wg.org/> and is exactly why I've split off core from
infrastructure concerns - it definitely sounds like we should be
collaborating more in future.
I'm open to creating any new specifications. Would it make sense to
have a REST-* Cloud API specification?
FWIW REST-* sounds like something I could get behind but to be
completely candid (as always) I'm disappointed to see similar governance
<
http://www.jboss.org/reststar/community/governance.html> shenanigans to
those that undermined the WS-I
<
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_Services_Interoperability>: "/Red Hat,
as the founder of REST-*, gets a permanent seat on the board. All other
board members must be elected by the overall membership once a year/".
If it's not too late then please reconsider this position.
What should it be changed to? So far the governance policies seem
pretty liberal to me (since I wrote it). RHT as a permanent member of
the board seems reasonable to me considering we started it and will be
doing most of the work initially. Then again, if its a show stopper it
will be removed.
Can we discuss your thoughts about governance more at:
http://groups.google.com/group/reststar-board
I'd like to have our discussion archived.
Thanks,
Bill
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