Abhisman

Hi, it seems that the spec versions are already initialized to 1 in `types.go`

Could you point me to the file where the metadata version is specified? I've also looked at `repo.go` and there seems to be a version getting assigned in line [125](https://github.com/theupdateframework/go-tuf/blob/master/repo.go#L125)...

Oh, gotcha. The review wasn't loading for me earlier. Thanks for the explanation!

> Currently, the version is incremented the first time the metadata is staged to the local store. Could I get some more info as to where exactly does the `version`...

@ethan-lowman-dd I'm attempting to solve this issue and I have set `Version` to 1 for `NewRoot()` and `NewTargets()`. So now I'm wondering if I should remove the code lines that...

@ethan-lowman-dd So from what I could understand, in the functions where ```go if !r.local.FileIsStaged("root.json") { root.Version++ } ``` is present, the `root()` method is being called (which returns a pointer...

Hi, I'd like a final go-ahead to push a pr with the suggested changes. Thanks.

Does this mean importing the native fuzzer in place of the 3rd party fuzzer in the source code and then running `go mod tidy`? (New to golang. Hence a bit...

I'd like this issue to be assigned to me, thanks.

I'm rather new to golang and was wondering how I should go about checking for default values. I'm guessing I'm able to check for `defaultRegistry` but not sure if I'm...