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Define package types for ASF projects (Apache Software Foundation) #305
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Do you have the links to the threads? I'm curious what the use case is. Project !=Package. In fact I have asserted for >10 years that the major problem with CPE is that it maps to just a project... where a project like Struts has ~80 packages, making it useless for most use cases. Having a pURL recreate that lossy coordinate would be a huge step backwards. |
https://lists.apache.org/thread/vc3h1t7plq3sgtqvp385s4nlo3l7rry7 and https://lists.apache.org/thread/75l9f8bcs9fm232p2j3prbj9fw2or2k5 come to mind.
That would be good to flesh out. I could see an approach where we use the PMC id as the first segment, and the PMC can determine whether/how to add further detail - something like |
Most Apache projects fall into existing support for package ecosystems already supported by purl. See https://projects.apache.org/projects.html?language Per definition, a purl is:
I cannot locate
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We should define a package type for ASF projects (Apache Software Foundation)
The spec mentioned originally
apache for Apache projects packages
. The direction may be to useasf
rather thanapache
.There have been on-going discussion on the ASF mailing lists on the topic and we need to collect these links for reference and invite the ASF folks to join and help define this (important) package type!
@raboof ping
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