Applications for sharing metadata about code

[whereswaldon]

Mediachain seems like a great way to help store metadata about code. It seems like it would work for both code snippets and entire packages/projects. The trickiest part about such an application (at least, to my mind) would be managing different versions of the same code without a lot of duplication of effort with respect to updating their metadata (license info and soforth).

Some talking points that come to mind:

• Version management
• Ingesting GitHub API
• Integration with Mango
• Scale (single code snippet vs single-purpose package vs application)

[parkan]

Cool, haven't seen Mango before -- was also mulling over putting something like it together while thinking of translator packaging and distribution. Some application of mango and/or gx is probably the right way to handle code assets; it sounds like we need a fully generic, extensible "protocol handler" scheme (possibly based on something like multiformats/multiaddr) 😄