Simplify

[yosifkit]

As pointed out by @pierreozoux in docker-library/owncloud#28 (comment), the process and management of Official Images is complicated.

This issue is for us to discuss possible solutions to simplify the process and/or the code involved with concrete ideas becoming proposal issues and pull requests. We can also discuss the reasoning for the current architecture decisions in the hope that we can learn from the past and create something better.

[pierreozoux]

Can we have a codestyle for Dockerfile? My dream :) I can make a proposal if you want?

I like this kind: https://github.com/indiehosters/wordpress/blob/master/Dockerfile

[daghack]

In terms of "solutions to simplify the process and/or the code involved"", I feel like mandating a coding style is silly. There's no reason we should enforce, for example, spacing in a Dockerfile as long as it follows best practices. The maintainer should be able to use whatever style the feel most comfortable with. There's no reason we should arbitrate an arbitrary style.

[pierreozoux]

@Moghedrin of course not for an external maintainer, but for the Dockerfile maintained by docker.

[daghack]

Most, if not all, of the official images maintained by us already follow a set coding style. Are you recommending that we change that coding style to something preferred by you?

[pierreozoux]

@Moghedrin no :) Just having a clear codestyle :) I would have love to have a clear codestyle when I started to write my first Dockerfile, that's all.
All companies have codestyle, and I think it is cool.

But you know, just ignore my comment about the codestyle. I was just a bit overexcited maybe. And we are not discussing about the heart of the problem, just bike shedding.