On Wed, Mar 2, 2011 at 7:58 AM, Jonathan Sabo <[email protected]> wrote: > On Wed, Mar 2, 2011 at 3:05 AM, petermity <[email protected]> wrote: >> Scott Henson <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>>On Tue, 1 Mar 2011 07:48:43 -0500, Jonathan Sabo <[email protected]> wrote: >>>> I think you should use the comments field instead of creating another >>>> field with the same purpose as the one that already exists. You could >>>> make it configurable in settings if you want to have them be in your >>>> menu so there are no surprises. >>> >>>+1, patches? >> >> To me, it seems better to have a separate setting. The comment is for the >> Cobbler developer/maintainer. The new menu description item is for the >> users of the Cobbler system. >> >> _______________________________________________ >> cobbler mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://fedorahosted.org/mailman/listinfo/cobbler >> > > It's clearly not intended to be restricted to just Cobbler developers > and maintainers. It's not hidden from the user at all and there are > some things in Cobbler that are indeed kept from the users. The > comments field is not one of them. In fact it's made available for > user's to enter information (notes, descriptions, comments) through > out the entire hierarchy of the objects in the Web UI, cli, and api. >
When you say users you mean people looking at a pxe menu don't you and not people using the Cobbler Web UI or cli? Those would be your "maintainers"? I can understand wanting the comments field all for yourself and a separate one in that case but I also don't think we should have lots of fields with an overlapping purpose. _______________________________________________ cobbler mailing list [email protected] https://fedorahosted.org/mailman/listinfo/cobbler
