[Bro-Dev] package manager progress

[Slagell, Adam J]

Hhhm, is it naming conventions that people have a problem with or the implication of policing? These can be separated. I don’t see a downside to promoting conventions. 

It also seems that some of the reason (e.g., that we have metadata is based on an assumption that we will have good metadata). But I recall a lot of resistance to requiring basic metadata.

I believe this merits a little more discussion and would like to nudge behavior if possible, though not compel it. We could do this by simply providing a skeleton taxonomy into which people could always just through things in “misc” or some equivalent.

> On Jul 27, 2016, at 12:57 PM, Robin Sommer <robin at icir.org> wrote:
> 
> Make it four. :) I'm with Seth, too, better not to enforce any naming
> scheme because the boundaries are unclear. Also, note that a single
> binary Bro plugin can provide multiple quite different things (say, a
> reader and an analyzer and a packet source all at the same time, if
> one so desires :).
> 
> Also agree with Johanna: the username is part of the package name if I
> follow correctly, so there's disambiguation there.
> 
> I have some more feeback on the package manager and Jon's questions
> starting this thread, will send soon.
> 
> Robin
> 
> On Wed, Jul 27, 2016 at 09:15 -0700, you wrote:
> 
>> And to add a me three to this - I am also with him on this one. On top 
>> of things - I might misremember this, but didn't we plan package names 
>> to include the github user name at one point of time? So a package name 
>> would be user/redis, for example, and there also could be user2/redis?
>> 
>> Johanna
>> 
>> On 27 Jul 2016, at 9:05, Matthias Vallentin wrote:
>> 
>>>> I actually don't like this that much because some of these can cross
>>>> boundaries and do all sorts of different things in a single plugin.
>>>> It makes more sense to me to leave the naming open.
>>> 
>>> I'm with Seth on this one. The reason why I think we should keep the
>>> naming open is that it's the job of the meta data tags to take care of
>>> the grouping. If someone writes a redis package, then they should 
>>> apply
>>> the redis package. Encoding this meta data into the package name is
>>> quite limited, however.
>>> 
>>>    Matthias
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