OCI go-digest project proposal

Abstract

image-spec#486 introduces a dependency on a stable upstream implementation of https://github.com/docker/go-digest, which was recently broken out of the https://github.com/docker/distribution project.

This package has been instrumental in providing a strong hash-identity implementation in Go and we will extend this to OCI. This will be supported by moving https://github.com/opencontainers/go-digest to OCI. While this package does support opencontainers/image-spec, it is broadly useful in other image formats or outside image formats.

Having a solid, battle-proven, common digest implementation in OCI for use in and outside the image-spec will ensure long lasting security and interoperability throughout the container ecosystem.

Proposal

With repositories under the http://github.com/opencontainers organization:

Rename (transfer) https://github.com/docker/go-digest would become https://github.com/opencontainers/go-digest.

Initial Maintainers

Initial maintainers of the go-digest project would be seeded from the image-spec project:

Brandon Philips brandon.philips@coreos.com (@philips)
Brendan Burns bburns@microsoft.com (@brendandburns)
Jason Bouzane jbouzane@google.com (@jbouzane)
John Starks jostarks@microsoft.com (@jstarks)
Jonathan Boulle jon.boulle@coreos.com (@jonboulle)
Stephen Day stephen.day@docker.com (@stevvooe)
Vincent Batts vbatts@redhat.com (@vbatts)

Code of Conduct

This project would incorporate (by reference) the OCI Code of Conduct.

Governance and Releases

This project would incorporate the Governance and Releases processes from the OCI project template: https://github.com/opencontainers/project-template.

Project Communications

Both of the proposed projects would continue to use existing channels in use by the OCI developer community for communication including:

GitHub for issues and pull requests
The dev@opencontainers.org email list
The weekly OCI developer community conference call
The #OpenContainers IRC channel

Versioning / Roadmap

We will probably minimize the releases of this project.

It will provide digesting functionality for all present and future versions of the specification.

Frequenty Asked Questions (FAQ)

Q: Does this change the OCI Charter or Scope Table?

A: No. Nothing in this proposal is intended to amend the OCI Charter (https://www.opencontainers.org/about/governance) or OCI Scope Table (https://www.opencontainers.org/about/oci-scope-table).

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