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

On Wed, Sep 30, 2009 at 03:49:05PM +0200, Matthias Bolte wrote: > 2009/9/30 Daniel Veillard <veillard(a)redhat.com&gt;: > >  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.