Silvano Cirujano Cuesta

@sneakers-the-rat may I propose some changes to make this PR digestible for a reviewer? I would split it into smaller PRs, building each of the following points a PR build...

> See also the recently-implemented ruff formatting and linting in [linkml-map](https://github.com/linkml/linkml-map/). @ialarmedalien IMO the ruff rules that you use is the most interesting part. Apart from that I can see...

> i appreciate the request, but it essentially amounts to completely redoing the PR, so i'm not going to do that. feel free to close this if it's unwanted. i've...

I would like to shortly illustrate what I had in mind. [This branch of mine](https://github.com/linkml/linkml-runtime/compare/main...Silvanoc:linkml-runtime:alternative-347-preparation) has all the configurations to apply the same linting and formatting (it's the `pyproject.toml` of...

> current test failures are mysterious to me. It looks like the current snapshots are incorrect, but not sure why this fixes them - schema that's failing is this: https://github.com/linkml/linkml/blob/main/tests/test_utils/input/owl1.yaml...

> so im not disagreeing about how taking those steps would make the PR more reviewable, im just saying I already did them. I could not recognize it. So it's...

I have been looking at the tests and I have found following issues: 1. [Workflows enumeration](https://github.com/opencontainers/distribution-spec/blob/8376368dd8aadc33bf6c88a8b765df90287bb5c8/conformance/setup.go#L38) items are being used as bitmasks. But also to generate configs and manifests loops...

> My preference is to use the Go stdlib where possible. My goal is to minimize the number of external libraries and frameworks someone needs to learn to submit a...

I have had a deeper look at the tests and I have done some experiments resulting in the PoC that you can find in [this branch of my fork](https://github.com/Silvanoc/distribution-spec/tree/improve-verbosity). It...

> I would much rather see a holistic approach over adding more patches onto the existing conformance tests. Adding tests for referrers already stretched the existing model beyond the initial...