Namespace the maintainer label

[jberger]

This is only a mild complaint, but as labels are inherited from base images, I've just noticed that all my work images have you fine folks in the labels as maintainer. Now I know where that comes from because I recognize your names, however, others might now and it could be confusing. Yes I can (and will start) to overload the "maintainer" label by hand, however, many (and probably most) people using say github actions, use automation to derive the labels for images from available metadata; see https://github.com/docker/metadata-action for example.

The solution I propose is to namespace your maintainer label with something that will be unambiguous. There exists a standard (such as it is) from the opencontainer initiative; see https://github.com/opencontainers/image-spec/blob/main/annotations.md . These are the types of label generated by the metadata action linked above. As such I would propose that you change your label from maintainer to org.perl.image.maintainer or something of that nature.

[tianon]

Another solid option would be just removing the LABEL entirely :eyes: :innocent:

[zakame]

Hi @jberger @tianon , thanks for this report! 👍

Yeah I'm partial to just removing the LABEL maintainer entirely - the only time I've touched that label is when I added myself and forgot about it 😅 We can reintroduce as opencontainers annotations later, but for now there seem's no need.

[zakame]

Label dropped - will see this change in the docker-library release for next year's perldevel version or stable update 💪 Thanks!

[zakame]

Happy New Year! 🎉 This is now live in today's 5.39.6 update (and should also be in the older supported versions,) among other updates. Enjoy!