It should be possible to view the description of an installed patch through the mgmt API (maybe patch history). The information is stored as part of the backed up patch.xml.
Emanuel Muckenhuber <emuckenh> updated the status of jira WFLY-2646 to Resolved
re-assign Emanuel's assigned bugs to Brian.
We use JIRA for RFEs. This one is covered under https://issues.jboss.org/browse/EAP6-239.