Adrián Chaves

@Mckinsey666 Great to hear from you! Make sure you read http://gsoc2020.scrapinghub.com/participate carefully. The “Pre-Application Pull Request” section covers how to make contributions to support your GSoC proposals.

> Also should we build on top of libmagic or implement the standard from scratch ? Whatever works best. If existing libraries can help with long-term maintenance or performance, they...

I believe that is @kmike’s point, yes. We are open to reusing existing libraries, but the point is to get the best possible implementation, and at the moment it looks...

I think it would make sense to implement the body-based detection in libmagic syntax following the conventions from the standard, and have regular libmagic as a fallback for cases not...

Looks good to me. I was personally hoping to see libmagic-related work earlier out of pure curiosity, but the proposed calendar makes sense, better to follow an order close to...

It is still open. I’ll take the chance to mention [`sniffpy`](https://pypi.org/project/sniffpy/), although I think that, just as [`mimesniff`](https://pypi.org/project/mimesniff/), fails to follow [the spec](https://mimesniff.spec.whatwg.org/), at least not completely.

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> So I must send PR to any repo of your organization or specific one in this case? In this case I guess you are free to choose the target...

It’s too late to provide you with feedback, but we will certainly take it into consideration, thanks!

That tool sounds very interesting! Regarding this specific issue, it could be argued that it is indeed a good first issue. I’m unsure, though.