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Is there a metadata standard for tagging software releases, so that sites like the Free Software Directory ( directory.fsf.org ) can automatically list the latest release without human maintainers having to constantly check for new releases? Could this be part of the #ForgeFed spec?
I don't know of any official metadata standard, but there's a convention that every git tag pushed to the $RELEASE branch, is a release. That's how #FDroid does autoupdates.
There is https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DOAP though I don't think it's very common.
I assume the #SPDX standard includes a place to put the version number and release date for software packages, maybe this could be helpful?
https://spdx.org/using-spdx-documents

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I've never used SPDX documents, but it looks like it does have a version number, so it may be useful. I don't see a release date from my brief skim, though.