[atomic-devel] Nulecule Validator repo on GitHub

[Tomas Radej <tradej redhat com>]

Hi,

I have made a validator library/executable for Nulecule files [1], and 
I'd like to transfer it to the Project Atomic organisation on GitHub. 
There has been some discussion about where it should go, if it should be 
merged with the main spec repo [2] or the atomicapp [3], or something 
completely different. Mind you that this lib is just a syntactic 
validator, not a linter, so it has can't understand the files beyond 
simple checking against a schema.

I think that the nulecule_validator repo should stay as a stand-alone 
repository with its own releases and lifecycle. The reason is that it 
can be easily used on its own. It only needs the schemata from the main 
spec repo, nothing else, and these schemata can be linked to it via git 
submodule or subtree.

If it was merged with atomicapp, every user wanting to validate their 
file on any machine would need all dependencies of the atomicapp 
installed (Docker?). A typical case would be a user developing a 
Nulecule app with DevAssistant on one (bare metal) machine and deploying 
on another (virtual one?). In addition to that, the validator wouldn't 
be much use to alternative implementations of the Nulecule spec either.

Questions, comments, suggestions?

Thanks, Tomas Radej

[1] https://github.com/tradej/nulecule_validator
[2] https://github.com/projectatomic/nulecule
[3] https://github.com/projectatomic/atomicapp