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RFC: Harvest metadata from upstream repository

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Assessment

Difficulty
5/5
Estimated time
Over a week
Newbie friendliness
20/100
Issue type
Feature
Clarity
Needs clarification
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
json
Domain
database

Research direction

No implementation files or tests are named. Start by reviewing the proposed game.json metadata flow and the citation-file-format reference, then clarify validation, updates, abuse, and DMCA handling. Done would be an agreed design for harvesting validated metadata into the main repository.

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Description

An homebrew developer could add a metadata file (a-la game.json) in the source repository of it's project (like https://citation-file-format.github.io/) and then ask the repository/homebrew hub to harvest their game

If the metadata file passes validation, it could be added "automatically" to the main repository

To discuss:

  • abuses
  • updates?
  • DMCA?
Dominant language
C
Stars
95
Forks
52
Avg merge
7h 33m
Merged PRs (30d)
1

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