[Openstack-devel] Bug#708658: Bug#708658: [RFR] templates://cinder/{cinder-common.templates, cinder-api.templates}

[Justin B Rye]

Thomas Goirand wrote:
> Justin B Rye wrote:
>> Mind you, I still think it's weird that
>> cloudmongers want us to make client connections on an Application
>> Programming Interface..
> 
> It's an REST API server that we are talking about. I know it sounds a
> bit weirdo to "connect to an API", thought it's well admitted within the
> OpenStack community than things have to be called this way, and in the
> context of OpenStack, it does make sense. Therefore, I do not wish to
> change that part.

No, it's far too late to change it!  But presumably it's "creeping
developerese": programmers forget that what API actually means is
"design specs for source code" and think of it as meaning just "the
part of the software I interact with".  Even "ABI" would be closer -
at least that's a runtime thing!

> Also, please note that for all of OpenStack packages, I have ran
> "wrap-and-sort", so you might want to get the latest version each time,
> otherwise applying diffs will be a bit more complicated (meaning, it's
> going to be a "by-hand" job, with possibilities to do mistakes).

Er, does that mean I need to learn to use debcheckout, or is this the
version I get when I apt-get source?
-- 
JBR	with qualifications in linguistics, experience as a Debian
	sysadmin, and probably no clue about this particular package