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[enhancement] Add better metadata to the Docker images

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Description

As part of the Docker over-haul currently going on it would be good to add better metadata for the Docker images, to facilitate findability, reproducibility and trust Right now the Docker images have a single label maintainer

Suggestion

Add more OCI compliant annotations to the Docker images seehttps://github.com/opencontainers/image-spec/blob/main/annotations.md

Context

This adheres to industry-standard best practices and increases the end-user confidence

Issue Analytics

State:
Created 2 years ago
Comments:7 (7 by maintainers)

Top GitHub Comments

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trallardcommented, Dec 15, 2021

that should be enough - will go ahead and close this issue

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trallardcommented, Nov 3, 2021

I would suggest adding the following on top of source and maintainer:

description
created (previous build-date from label schema) - this can be updated through GH actions
license (QHub is BSD-3 so this should inherit from)

Also it is advisable that the author label has a contact option (email, github handle, etc)

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