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Distribution
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The Docker toolset to pack, ship, store, and deliver content.
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Planned content for this repository:
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* Distribution related specifications
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- Image format
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- JSON registry API
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* Registry implementation: a Golang implementation of the JSON API
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* Client libraries to consume conforming implementations of the JSON API
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# Ongoing open sprint
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### What is an open sprint?
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The open sprint is a focused effort of a small group of people to kick-off a new project, while commiting to becoming maintainers of the resulting work.
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**Having a dedicated team work on the subject doesn't mean that you, the community, cannot contribute!** We need your input to make the best use of the sprint, and focus our work on what matters for you. For this particular topic:
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* Come discuss on IRC: #docker-distribution on FreeNode
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* Submit your ideas, and upvote those you think matter the most on [Google Moderator](https://www.google.com/moderator/?authuser=1#16/e=2165c3)
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### Goal of the distribution sprint
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Design a professional grade and extensible content distribution system, that allow users to:
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* Enjoy an efficient, secured and reliable way to store, manage, package and exchange content
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* Hack/roll their own on top of healthy open-source components
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* Implement their own home made solution through good specs, and solid extensions mechanism.
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### Schedule and expected output
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The Open Sprint will start on **Monday December 29th**, and end on **Friday January 16th**.
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What we want to achieve as a result is:
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* Tactical fixes of today's frustrations in the existing Docker codebase
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- This includes a throrough review of [docker/docker#9784](https://github.com/docker/docker/pull/9784) by core maintainers
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* Laying the base of a new distribution subsystem, living independently, and with a well defined group of maintainers. This is the purpose of this repository, which aims at hosting:
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- A specification of the v2 image format
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- A specification of the JSON/HTTP protocol
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- Server-side Go implementation of the v2 registry
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- Client-side Go packages to consume this new API
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- Standalone binaries providing content distribution functionalities outside of Docker
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* Constraints for interface provided by Distribution to Core:
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- The distribution repository is a collection of tools for packaging and
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shipping content with Docker
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- All tools are usable primarily as standalone command-line tools. They may
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also expose bindings in one or more programming languages. Typically the
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first available language is Go, but that is not automatically true and more
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languages will be supported over time
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- The distribution repository is still under incubation, any code layout,
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interface and name may change before it gets included in a stable release of
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Docker
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### How will this integrate with Docker engine?
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Building awesome, independent, and well maintained distribution tools should give Docker core maintainers enough incentive to switch to the newly develop subsystem. We make no assumptions on a given date or milestone as urgency should be fixed through [docker/docker#9784](https://github.com/docker/docker/pull/9784), and in order to maintain focus on producing a top quality alternative.
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### Relevant documents
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* [Analysis of current state and goals](doc/opensprint/kickoff.md)
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