[openstack-dev] [Glance] Implementing Common Image Properties

Brian Waldon bcwaldon at gmail.com
Thu Sep 6 20:20:13 UTC 2012


On Sep 6, 2012, at 1:06 PM, Jay Pipes wrote:

>> 2) Do we define enums for these fields or leave them as open-ended strings?
> 
> Enums. As per above.

Using an enum is just asking for trouble. How can we possibly cover all of the known distros? Glance doesn't care what the value is, we as consumers care that we use the same name to represent the same thing. The best we can really do here is provide a list of suggested values.

Waldon




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