On 2022.09.06 10:33, 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?

[1] https://www.gentoo.org/glep/glep-0074.html
[2] https://www.gentoo.org/glep/glep-0078.html

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Best regards,
Michał Górny

Michał,

However, the process is non-trivial ...

That's a down side.

What are the benefits to Gentoo?

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Roy Bamford
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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?

[1] https://www.gentoo.org/glep/glep-0074.html
[2] https://www.gentoo.org/glep/glep-0078.html

--
Best regards,
Michał Górny

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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.

- Flow

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On Tue, 2022-09-06 at 10:40 +0100, Roy Bamford wrote:

On 2022.09.06 10:33, 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?

[1] https://www.gentoo.org/glep/glep-0074.html
[2] https://www.gentoo.org/glep/glep-0078.html

--
Best regards,
Michał Górny

Michał,

However, the process is non-trivial ...

That's a down side.

What are the benefits to Gentoo?

Fame and glory? I think we might be the second (after Debian) distro to
have officially registered MIME types.

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Best regards,
Michał Górny

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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 ;-).

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Best regards,
Michał Górny

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