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+OpenStack Ansible Modules
+=========================
+
+These are a set of modules for interacting with OpenStack as either an admin
+or an end user. If the module does not begin with os_, it's either deprecated
+or soon to be. This document serves as developer coding guidelines for
+modules intended to be here.
+
+Naming
+------
+
+* All modules should start with os_
+* If the module is one that a cloud consumer would expect to use, it should be
+  named after the logical resource it manages. Thus, os\_server not os\_nova.
+  The reasoning for this is that there are more than one resource that are
+  managed by more than one service and which one manages it is a deployment
+  detail. A good example of this are floating IPs, which can come from either
+  Nova or Neutron, but which one they come from is immaterial to an end user.
+* If the module is one that a cloud admin would expect to use, it should be
+  be named with the service and the resouce, such as os\_keystone\_domain.
+* If the module is one that a cloud admin and a cloud consumer could both use,
+  the cloud consumer rules apply.
+
+Interoperability
+----------------
+
+* It should be assumed that the cloud consumer does not know a bazillion
+  details about the deployment choices their cloud provider made, and a best
+  effort should be made to present one sane interface to the ansible user
+  regardless of deployer insanity.
+* All modules should work appropriately against all existing known public
+  OpenStack clouds.
+* It should be assumed that a user may have more than one cloud account that
+  they wish to combine as part of a single ansible managed infrastructure.
+
+Libraries
+---------
+
+* All modules should use openstack\_full\_argument\_spec to pick up the
+  standard input such as auth and ssl support.
+* All modules should extends\_documentation\_fragment: openstack to go along
+  with openstack\_full\_argument\_spec.
+* All complex cloud interaction or interoperability code should be housed in
+  the [shade](http://git.openstack.org/cgit/openstack-infra/shade) library.
+* All OpenStack API interactions should happen via shade and not via
+  OpenStack Client libraries. The OpenStack Client libraries do no have end
+  users as a primary audience, they are for intra-server communication. The
+  python-openstacksdk is the future there, and shade will migrate to it when
+  its ready in a manner that is not noticable to ansible users.