Add description field to feed settings

[jlelse]

This adds a new "notes" field to the feed settings. This allows to save custom notes regarding a feed. It is also exported and imported as "description" in OPML.

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[fguillot]

This adds a new "notes" field to the feed settings. This allows to save custom notes regarding a feed

Interesting. I never thought about that. I'm wondering what kind of notes people might want to associate with a feed.

It is also exported and imported as "description" in OPML.

This one could be problematic in the future. Today, Miniflux does not parse the description field from RSS feeds, but it's something that could be easily implemented. There is a related feature request: #2605.

• RSS and JSON have the description field
• Atom has the subtitle field

[jlelse]

I'm wondering what kind of notes people might want to associate with a feed.

I currently use the Miniflux API to get the OPML and automatically update the blogroll on my blog. But that's just a list of random links. I want to add some context to say why I am following those blogs.

[jlelse]

This one could be problematic in the future.

What is problematic about that?

[rebron1900]

Glad someone shares the same idea as me.
I also display my RSS subscription list on my blog and want to note the reasons for subscribing to each RSS feed.

[fguillot]

This one could be problematic in the future.

What is problematic about that?

If Miniflux starts to parse and store the description field from RSS feeds in the near future, then it would make sense to add it to the OPML export as well. We can't have both the feed description and the notes field using the same OPML description attribute.

[jlelse]

I think the notes field can be filled with the feed description by default. But the same way the feed title can be modified, the feed description can be as well. No problem to rename "Notes" to "Feed description". 😊

[fguillot]

I think the notes field can be filled with the feed description by default. But the same way the feed title can be modified, the feed description can be as well. No problem to rename "Notes" to "Feed description". 😊

Let's rename the notes field to description then.

[jlelse]

Renamed everything in the code. 🙂

[fguillot]

I merged another pull request that conflicts with yours. It would be nice if you could rebase this PR.

[jlelse]

I rebased the branch.