Summary/Minutes from today's FESCo meeting (2010-10-26) NEW TIME!

[Daniel P. Berrange]

On Fri, Oct 29, 2010 at 04:55:44PM +0530, Rahul Sundaram wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 29, 2010 at 4:48 PM, Daniel P. Berrange  wrote:
> 
> >
> > There are 32 possible capabilites, so you'll quickly exceed the width
> > of terminals just listing capabilities, in this format. You could try
> > and decide on shortened names to < 5 characters each, but it isn't
> > going to be so readable, nor very short for lots of caps
> >
> 
> w, r, x are not really that readable either.  It is just short, familiar and
> memorable.  once we get short notations with a option to list what it means
> in full, we can adopt to that.

You only have 3 letters to remember the name of and you encounter them on
a daily basis, so its easily rememberable. Give every capability even a 5
letter long code and few will ever be able to remember what they mean.

Daniel
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