[libvirt] [PATCH] Allows for a <description> tag for domains

[Daniel Veillard]

On Wed, Sep 30, 2009 at 03:22:43PM +0100, Daniel P. Berrange wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 30, 2009 at 03:49:05PM +0200, Matthias Bolte wrote:
> > 2009/9/30 Daniel Veillard <veillard at redhat.com>:
> > >  https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=523639
> > >
> > > feature request which makes sense to me, the simple patch attached
> > > seems to be sufficient, one can define and have the description back
> > > in the dump. Doesn't try to keep the location of the tag, it always
> > > get serialized after <uuid>.
> > > The only drawbacks I can think of are:
> > >  - others XML formats may require the same, but honnestly it's trivial
> > >  - machine generated description (for example if the history log of
> > >    a domain gets stored there) could grow a lot and I wonder if we
> > >    have a hard limit on the size when transmitting xml descriptions
> > 
> > Such a machine generated description would contradict the intention of
> > Rubin Simons for this description entry. IMHO this description entry
> > should be used for user-provided descriptions only. For any other
> > purpose (like a history log) another entry should be added.
> 
> I agree that a '<description>' element should be exclusively for 
> user supplied free-form text, not interpreted by applications.
> THe history log is the kind of idea that makes me think we should
> group it inside the top level <metadata> element.

  Hum, I'm not sure I follow, you would like to create a metadata
container at the top level and put <description> in it ? The problem
is that I don't see what else we could move there.

Daniel

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