⚙ D3154 Add artifact metadata to the extrinsic metadata storage specification.

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vlorentz added a task: T2306: Generic storage for extrinsic, qualified metadata related to any node of the swh archive.May 14 2020, 2:53 PM

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Author: Valentin Lorentz <vlorentz@softwareheritage.org>
Date:   Thu May 14 14:50:46 2020 +0200

    Add artifact metadata to the extrinsic metadata storage specification.

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Question: can we support both context-full and context-less metadata for arbitrary artifacts?

There are metadata that will be independent of the context, but that we still don't want to store in the main storage. If we don't support that here I'm not sure where we will store those.

I don't know if the proposal is as simple as supporting a NULL/None value for context here, or if we should rather duplicate the methods you're proposing (one set for context-full, one for context-less). Either approach would be fine with me.

I don't think it makes sense to make this difference, because if a metadata only has origin in its context, it means it's context-free on all "axis" but the origin already. Having also no origin context is just one more axis it would be context-free on.

This is a great idea to add context.
I always thought the multiplicity will be from having a lot of authorities saying different things about artifacts.
Haven't realized that the same object in a different context can have in itself different metadata.

The question will remain, about how will we show the metadata.

I've added some changes to clarify the need of context without excluding the option to add metadata without context.

docs/extrinsic-metadata-specification.rst
193	I would prefer saying that: extrinsic metadata can be given on a specific artifact within a specified context (for example: a directory in a specific revision from a specific visit on a specific origin) which will be stored along the metadata itself. and add the note: the context information isn't mandatory, metadata on artifacts can be added without the contextual information with an empty `context` field
196	I don't understand that.. which authorship? of the file? so you can't add authors metadata on a dir or on a file without the contextual information? I would change this example because it opens question on authorship that are not in the scope of this documentation. If we have a HAL deposit on an artifact developed in GitHub, the deposit metadata is enhancing the information we might have on the repository (it might not be in contradiction to the one on GitHub). So I would say, For example, two origins may develop the same file independently; the information about authorship, licensing or even description may vary about the same artifact in a different context. This is why it is important to capture the complete context on which the metadata applies to.
199	I think that `Therefore` is not needed.
211	do we get all metadata on the identified artifact, if the context is empty? If yes, this is worth mentioning.
221	typo a URL instead of an URL

Thanks for sharing this: we're definitely going forward!
Comments are in the text, but overall:

agree that we need a way to store and retrieve metadata that is contextless (or... valid in all contexts)
for the context, we need to use the SHWIDs themselves, not the sha1_git that is bound to version 1 of SWHIDS

All the rest LGTM.

docs/extrinsic-metadata-specification.rst
193	I agree that we want to be able to store metadata that does not depend on a context. Using an empty context field, or a special distinguished value for designating "all contexts" fills the bill.
196	Agree with this clarification of the text. Small improvement: This is why it is important to qualify the metadata with the complete context for which it is inteded.
211	I agree it is important to be able to formulate a query that allows to request the metadata available for all contexts. This can be obtained either using an empty context in the query, or a special distinguished value for designating "all contexts".
221	For the snapshot key in the dictionary, use the `snapshot core SWHID`, not the `visit integer` (that is an internal implementation detail)
222–227	Here also, we do not want to commit to using `sha1_git`, as in the near future we might need to store metadata for SWHIDs that use different hashes. Let's use "(a `release SWHID`)", "(a `revision SWHID`)" etc.

for the context, we need to use the SHWIDs themselves, not the sha1_git that is bound to version 1 of SWHIDS

What's the difference? When we'll use something other than sha1_git we'll just migrate this data with the rest.

docs/extrinsic-metadata-specification.rst
211	Sorry, that's a typo. I didn't mean to add this `context` argument.

vlorentz added inline comments.May 16 2020, 4:16 PM

docs/extrinsic-metadata-specification.rst
221	What do you mean? Make snapshots have a snapshot context?

In D3154#76782, @vlorentz wrote:

for the context, we need to use the SHWIDs themselves, not the sha1_git that is bound to version 1 of SWHIDS

What's the difference? When we'll use something other than sha1_git we'll just migrate this data with the rest.

I agree we should use SWHID everywhere. We should've used them in the beginning everywhere in fact, but now we should organically migrate to them.
There are many reasons for this, but one specific to this task is that it will make exports of this DB self-contained and meaningful, only depending on a publicly available spec, while using sub-parts of SWHID will lose that property.

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commit ab45de192802e92ec24845ac95c87464475a0b91
Author: Valentin Lorentz <vlorentz@softwareheritage.org>
Date:   Thu Apr 9 11:46:21 2020 +0200

    Implement extrinsic origin metadata specification.
    
    https://docs.softwareheritage.org/devel/swh-storage/extrinsic-metadata-specification.html

See https://jenkins.softwareheritage.org/job/DSTO/job/tests-on-diff/176/ for more details.

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Notice also that if/when we introduce new versions of SWHIDs with other
hashing algorithms, we need to maintain backward compatibility.
Metadata introduced with a given context must not be "migrated" to the new
SWHIDs, but "duplicated" for the new SWHIDs.
Better think right now of a schema that allows to "share" metadata payloads
among multiple versions of SWHIDs without actually copying them over.

Le sam. 16 mai 2020 à 16:24, zack (Stefano Zacchiroli) <
forge@softwareheritage.org> a écrit :

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In D3154#76782 https://forge.softwareheritage.org/D3154#76782, @vlorentz
https://forge.softwareheritage.org/p/vlorentz/ wrote:

for the context, we need to use the SHWIDs themselves, not the sha1_git
that is bound to version 1 of SWHIDS

What's the difference? When we'll use something other than sha1_git we'll
just migrate this data with the rest.

I agree we should use SWHID everywhere. We should've used them in the
beginning everywhere in fact, but now we should organically migrate to them.
There are many reasons for this, but one specific to *this* task is that
it will make exports of this DB self-contained and meaningful, only
depending on a publicly available spec, while using sub-parts of SWHID will
lose that property.

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Author: Valentin Lorentz <vlorentz@softwareheritage.org>
Date:   Thu Apr 9 11:46:21 2020 +0200

    Implement extrinsic origin metadata specification.
    
    https://docs.softwareheritage.org/devel/swh-storage/extrinsic-metadata-specification.html

See https://jenkins.softwareheritage.org/job/DSTO/job/tests-on-diff/178/ for more details.

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apply most comments

I applied most of your comments, except:

For the snapshot key in the dictionary, use the snapshot core SWHID, not the visit integer (that is an internal implementation detail)

because I don't understand it.

Also, should the first argument of <X>_metadata_add and <X>_metadata_get be a core SWHID?

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Author: Valentin Lorentz <vlorentz@softwareheritage.org>
Date:   Thu May 14 14:50:46 2020 +0200

    Add artifact metadata to the extrinsic metadata storage specification.

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Author: Valentin Lorentz <vlorentz@softwareheritage.org>
Date:   Thu May 14 14:50:46 2020 +0200

    Add artifact metadata to the extrinsic metadata storage specification.

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In D3154#76897, @vlorentz wrote:

I applied most of your comments,

Great!

except:

For the snapshot key in the dictionary, use the snapshot core SWHID, not the visit integer (that is an internal implementation detail)

because I don't understand it.

I removed that comment, it was incorrect: sorry for the noise.

Also, should the first argument of <X>_metadata_add and <X>_metadata_get be a core SWHID?

Yes, please!

Make 'visit' depend on 'origin' being provided.

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Author: Valentin Lorentz <vlorentz@softwareheritage.org>
Date:   Thu May 14 14:50:46 2020 +0200

    Add artifact metadata to the extrinsic metadata storage specification.

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Looks good to me (1 typo in the comments above).

Note: I understand the functional reason behind wanting to store SWHID.

Just mentioning that techically, that might make things harder if we want to
join (sql speaking) between tables. That means those "join" will have to take
place python side. That might be what we want in the end as we have other
storage backends where join might not be possible (e.g cassandra comes to
mind).

docs/extrinsic-metadata-specification.rst
234	SWHID of a directory

This revision is now accepted and ready to land.May 20 2020, 11:13 AM

fix typo + use SWHID as first argument

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Author: Valentin Lorentz <vlorentz@softwareheritage.org>
Date:   Thu May 14 14:50:46 2020 +0200

    Add artifact metadata to the extrinsic metadata storage specification.

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Adding a last comment after a last reread

docs/extrinsic-metadata-specification.rst
227	It seems that the XXXX in "(the core SWHID of a XXXX)" are off by one in lines 228, 230, 232: in 228 XXXX should be snapshot, not release, etc.

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Author: Valentin Lorentz <vlorentz@softwareheritage.org>
Date:   Thu May 14 14:50:46 2020 +0200

    Add artifact metadata to the extrinsic metadata storage specification.

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Looks good!
I added a comment about the an URL typo which we discussed on IRC (and decided it's a URL because we trust Wikipedia) :-)

docs/extrinsic-metadata-specification.rst
225	typo: an URL should be a URL

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