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Vendor vs Maintainer vs ???

Open larsks opened this issue 9 years ago • 2 comments

Docker images have a "maintainer" field, and this spec introduces a "Vendor" label. What's the difference? Is one an individual while one is an organization? Should it be an email address, a URL, or is the format unspecified?

larsks avatar May 16 '15 02:05 larsks

I can see that problem, But maintainer tends to be Daniel Walsh, where is the Vendor is Red Hat. I think tools displaying this content should just ignore the Maintainer field. Since I think most users of containers currently do ignore it.

Having labels get out of date/wrong because of layers is not something we can solve here other then tell users to use best practices.

rhatdan avatar May 16 '15 09:05 rhatdan

I think we should specify that Vendor should be the organization 'owning' the image.

llunved avatar Jun 16 '15 16:06 llunved