How to store metadata about a feed

A number of different issues and ideas have made clear the need for a place to specify metadata about a twtxt.txt feed. For instance, essentially every idea for notifications so far needs to know where the notifications should go (technical details vary based on the proposal). The question then is how to store metadata.

Discussion in #22 has suggested a general comment character, thus allowing clients to handle individually how the metadata would be stored. I suggest building on this, allowing for general comments, but make the following format specifically for metadata:

# this is a regular comment

# the next line is a metadata entry
# nick = benaiah

This echoes the .ini format of the twtxt config file, which I think gives it a nice consistency.

The other main suggestion for metadata is to have another file. I dislike this approach because it complicates the protocol, significantly increases how much twtxt has to hit the network, and requires either a second URL for each person (for the metadata file), switching twtxt.txt to hold metadata and having another file hold the feed, or putting a metadata entry in twtxt.txt that points to the metadata file.

[smeagolthellama]

are there any conventions about this stuff yet? Or, just in general, any progress?

[DracoBlue]

Ok.

So:

TIMESTAMP#action param1

is the final version?