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On 27/08/15 18:35 +0000, Tim Bell wrote:
>That could be done but we'd need to establish an agreed name so that Horizon or the CLIs, for example, could filter based on description. "Give me all VMs with Ansys in the description".
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>If we use properties, a consistent approach would be needed so the higher level tooling could rely on it (and hide the implementation details). Currently, I don't think Horizon lets you set properties for an image or a VM.

mmh, I'm not sure about this either (whether horizon allows you to do
that or not) but I'd recommend using properties too.

Flavio

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>Tim
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>-----Original Message-----
>From: Daniel Speichert [mailto:daniel at speichert.pl]
>Sent: 27 August 2015 19:32
>To: openstack-dev at lists.openstack.org
>Subject: Re: [openstack-dev] --detailed-description for OpenStack items
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>On 8/27/2015 13:23, Tim Bell wrote:
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>> Some project such as cinder include a detailed description option
>> where you can include an arbitrary string with a volume to remind the
>> admins what the volume is used for.
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>> Has anyone looked at doing something similar for Nova for instances
>> and Glance for images ?
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>> In many cases, the names get heavily overloaded with information.
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>> Tim
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>Wouldn't it be appropriate/simple to just specify a metadata like description="this is what it's used for"?
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>Regards,
>Daniel Speichert
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