Service info format

[Kubuxu]

What should be the format on different layers:

• JSON, Lua Tables or ...
• defining schema

[ghost]

IPLD :D

[Kubuxu]

It should be mainly human readable and easily parsable :smile:

IPLD could be an option if there was something for IPLD like jq for JSON.

[dansup]

Why not use nodeinfo.json ? Also what is IPLD?

[Kubuxu]

Problem with nodeinfo is that it from begging was a non-schema format. I for example would like to have (even small) CI nightly checking services and tagging those that are down. We are having problems with services that get rarely used, go down and nobody notices until someone wants to use it.

[cschmittiey]

I'd prefer something human-readable as well.

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Problem with nodeinfo is that it from begging was a non-schema format. I for example would like to have (even small) CI nightly checking services and tagging those that are down. We are having problems with services that get rarely used, go down and nobody notices until someone wants to use it.

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[ansuz]

since nobody acted it seems it's just going into a markdown table. :smile:

I added h.ipfs.io just now, maybe it's time we start populating this more?

[ansuz]

the markdown table is now json.

We can use that to construct a page that lists services in a table.