simplestreams json or index.asc for deliverables in the new list-of-deliverables?

[Fabian Deutsch]

----- Original Message -----
> On Mon, 18.05.15 19:44, Matthew Miller (mattdm at fedoraproject.org) wrote:
> 
> > FESCo Ticket #1427 <https://fedorahosted.org/fesco/ticket/1427>
> > formalizes the list of deliverables for each Fedora release. Cool.
> > 
> > Let's go a step beyond this and make a machine-readable list, at least
> > of image-based deliverables. One approach would be to use using Ubuntu's
> > simplestreams
> > format, documented at
> > <http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~smoser/simplestreams/trunk/view/head:/doc/README.>
> > 
> > A second option would be the index.asc as used by virt-builder:
> > <https://fedorahosted.org/rel-eng/ticket/5805>
> > 
> > That way, we'd have a standardized way for applications to find and
> > download/launch/whatever various Fedora images. This is a definite need
> > (see https://fedorahosted.org/cloud/ticket/93) and rather than
> > inventing a new wheel, maybe we could see if we could pound one of
> > these into shape.
> 
> There's also the ACI discovery stuff:
> 
> https://github.com/appc/spec/blob/master/SPEC.md#app-container-image-discovery

If you are just referring to this part of the spec …

> Doesn't really apply to non-ACI images right now, but the concepts in
> it are a bit nicer I think then the alternatives (i.e. the fact that
> it renders the image names into URL via a fixed template, and that it
> uses <meta> tags for exposing this information is pretty nice).

… then I agree. The URL scheme based identifier is nice.

But it is lacking stuff like a description and the size of the image.
And the method to retrieve metadata informations is somewhat cumbersome.

My 2ct.

- fabian