Ladislav Lhotka <[email protected]> wrote: > On Wed, 2017-12-06 at 14:51 +0100, Martin Bjorklund wrote: > > Juergen Schoenwaelder <[email protected]> wrote: > > > I am not sure design decisions of some web clients that provide clumsy > > > user experience should impact how we write data models. If we need > > > summary lines, we should properly separate them via > > > > > > ext:summary "this does magic, see the description" > > > > > > instead of relying on conventions. > > > > I agree. Incidentally, that's what we do (with a vendor specific > > extension). > > So if you have a single-line description, you replicate it in this extension's > parameter?
I have seen that. In some cases people simply don't put in the normal description in that case, just tailf:info. But for "real" nodes, the description tend to be longer than the short info. /martin > > Lada > > > > > > > /martin > > > > > > > > > > /js > > > > > > On Wed, Dec 06, 2017 at 01:37:36PM +0100, Ladislav Lhotka wrote: > > > > Hi, > > > > > > > > although detailed descriptions is a good thing, my recent experiences > > > > with > > web > > > > clients for RESTCONF indicate that they can become clumsy and unwieldy > > > > in > > such > > > > user interfaces. I think it would be useful to adopt a convention > > > > similar > > to Git > > > > commit messages: one relatively short summary line followed by an empty > > line, > > > > and the rest of the description after that. User interfaces could then > > easily > > > > recognize and use the summary line. > > > > > > > > Perhaps 6087bis could include such a recommendation. > > > > > > > > Lada > > > > > > > > -- > > > > Ladislav Lhotka > > > > Head, CZ.NIC Labs > > > > PGP Key ID: 0xB8F92B08A9F76C67 > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > > netmod mailing list > > > > [email protected] > > > > https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/netmod > > > > > > -- > > > Juergen Schoenwaelder Jacobs University Bremen gGmbH > > > Phone: +49 421 200 3587 Campus Ring 1 | 28759 Bremen | Germany > > > Fax: +49 421 200 3103 <http://www.jacobs-university.de/> > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > netmod mailing list > > > [email protected] > > > https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/netmod > > > > -- > Ladislav Lhotka > Head, CZ.NIC Labs > PGP Key ID: 0xB8F92B08A9F76C67 > _______________________________________________ netmod mailing list [email protected] https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/netmod
