{"action":"created","issue":{"url":"https://api.github.com/repos/BioDocker/biodocker/issues/36","labels_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/BioDocker/biodocker/issues/36/labels{/name}","comments_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/BioDocker/biodocker/issues/36/comments","events_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/BioDocker/biodocker/issues/36/events","html_url":"https://github.com/BioDocker/biodocker/issues/36","id":108308294,"number":36,"title":"Should we have an extended dockerfile header and skip the readme ?","user":{"login":"sauloal","id":506579,"avatar_url":"https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/506579?v=3","gravatar_id":"","url":"https://api.github.com/users/sauloal","html_url":"https://github.com/sauloal","followers_url":"https://api.github.com/users/sauloal/followers","following_url":"https://api.github.com/users/sauloal/following{/other_user}","gists_url":"https://api.github.com/users/sauloal/gists{/gist_id}","starred_url":"https://api.github.com/users/sauloal/starred{/owner}{/repo}","subscriptions_url":"https://api.github.com/users/sauloal/subscriptions","organizations_url":"https://api.github.com/users/sauloal/orgs","repos_url":"https://api.github.com/users/sauloal/repos","events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/sauloal/events{/privacy}","received_events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/sauloal/received_events","type":"User","site_admin":false},"labels":[{"url":"https://api.github.com/repos/BioDocker/biodocker/labels/question","name":"question","color":"cc317c"}],"state":"closed","locked":false,"assignee":null,"milestone":null,"comments":5,"created_at":"2015-09-25T11:32:30Z","updated_at":"2015-10-05T12:56:16Z","closed_at":"2015-10-04T02:57:25Z","body":"The last few days I've been busy creating new genomics packages in the sandbox and I came to a conclusion. \r\n\r\nInstead of having a README.md file for each container repeating the information that is already available in the header of the dockerfile, why not extend the header with more information and skip the readme?\r\n\r\nThe advantages are:\r\n- you don't have to update the readme every time you update an package\r\n- the header of a dockerfile is always synchronized with its own content\r\n- if the header always follows the same format we can easily parse it\r\n- we can create a \"dynamic\" (global) readme in the root of the repository containing the header of all dockerfiles present\r\n\r\ni've created 2 more experimental fields in the header of the dockerfile: \r\nprovides - list of provided programs (important if more than one)\r\ntags - tags such as genomics, proteomics, etc\r\n\r\nI propose to add more fields: \r\nsoftware website: source website\r\n\r\n/cc @BioDocker/contributors "},"comment":{"url":"https://api.github.com/repos/BioDocker/biodocker/issues/comments/145519446","html_url":"https://github.com/BioDocker/biodocker/issues/36#issuecomment-145519446","issue_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/BioDocker/biodocker/issues/36","id":145519446,"user":{"login":"bgruening","id":469983,"avatar_url":"https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/469983?v=3","gravatar_id":"","url":"https://api.github.com/users/bgruening","html_url":"https://github.com/bgruening","followers_url":"https://api.github.com/users/bgruening/followers","following_url":"https://api.github.com/users/bgruening/following{/other_user}","gists_url":"https://api.github.com/users/bgruening/gists{/gist_id}","starred_url":"https://api.github.com/users/bgruening/starred{/owner}{/repo}","subscriptions_url":"https://api.github.com/users/bgruening/subscriptions","organizations_url":"https://api.github.com/users/bgruening/orgs","repos_url":"https://api.github.com/users/bgruening/repos","events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/bgruening/events{/privacy}","received_events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/bgruening/received_events","type":"User","site_admin":false},"created_at":"2015-10-05T12:56:16Z","updated_at":"2015-10-05T12:56:16Z","body":"When is the next meeting. I would really like to talk to you guys :)"}}