On Tue, 2022-09-06 at 12:18 +0200, Florian Schmaus wrote: > On 06.09.22 11:33, Michał Górny wrote: > > Hi, everyone. > > > > Since we've been standardizing some things in Gentoo lately, I was > > thinking we could try to get some media types registered with IANA. > > > > Particularly, I'm thinking of registering our Manifest format [1] as: > > > > text/vnd.gentoo.manifest > > > > and our new binary package container format [2] as: > > > > application/vnd.gentoo.gpkg > > > > However, the process is non-trivial and I'm not sure if the latter > > really qualifies, given we're only specifying the container and not > > the complete data format. To be honest, the specs are quite huge > > and I'd really appreciate some help grasping all of this. > > > > Perhaps ebuilds and eclasses would also qualify for registration. > > > > WDYT? > > If you are happy to put in the effort, then I would go for it. Some > (most?) IANA registries are relatively easy to get in. I have some, but > somewhat little, experience with IANA due my XMPP background and I am > happy to assist. >
Thanks, I'll keep that in mind. That said, I just noticed that Debian has their binpkg format registered, so I may be able to get some inspiration there ;-). -- Best regards, Michał Górny
