@colophon/schema

Colophon Schema

Standarized project metadata to specify the components, constructs and authorship of software.

Allows teams to gain a better understanding of software, systems and human mappings (why, what, how, who, when, where) in an organization.

Use cases

• A single source of truth for all non-technical data!
• Catalogue all your software projects
  • quickly scan through github repos for human readable and business driven information rather than code
  • create reports on project health and ownership
• Codify business & operational concerns that are typically undocumented
  • timelines and scheduled operations around the project (e.g. sunset date)
  • none technical references to the project (e.g. kanban board, budget)
• Use in CI/CD tooling to anotate your artefacts
• Correlation of application instances and source code:

  • Web pages can expose a <meta> tag that links to the project's id:

    <meta name="colophon" content="acme-app-id"/>
    

  • APIs respond with a header Colophon that links to the project's id:

    HTTP/1.1 200 OK
    Date: Fri, 25 May 2018 22:38:34 GMT
    Content-Type: application/json; charset=UTF-8
    Content-Encoding: UTF-8
    Colophon: acme-app-api
    
    ...
    

Example

This project's own colophon.yml:

version: 1.0.0

id: colophon-schema

about:
  title: Colphon Schema
  description: Standarized project metadata to specify the components, constructs and authorship of software.

contacts:
  humans: Ahmad Nassri <[e-mail]>

schedule:
  launch: 2018-05-24T05:00:00.000Z

environments:
  - type: git
    title: Source Code
    uri: https://github.com/ahmadnassri/colophon

references:
  - title: Documentation
    uri: https://github.com/ahmadnassri/colophon

Specification

Versions

#	status
1.0	deprecated

JSON Schema

Available as an npm package for validation purposes, compatible with any JSON Schema validation tool

npm install --production --save @colophon/schema

Install

npm install @colophon/schema

Usage

const { schema, regex } = require('@colophon/schema')

Credits

• Original Idea: @crimeminister
• Name: @kumar

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Author: Ahmad Nassri • Github: @project-colophon • Twitter: @ColophonID