Minor manual cleanup of imports
Stub out a couple of functions we need to implement
Add some intellij files to gitignore
Start of hacked-in support for managing multiple descriptions.

Ultimately there should be a dedicated REST API for this kind of thing
to avoid sending lots of unnecessary data back and forth over the wire
just to update a description, but we'll do it the easy way at first to
be able to move forward on some other multiple-description-related issues.