publiccode.yml parser action for GitHub

A GitHub action based upon the Go parser and validator for publiccode.yml files.

publiccode.yml is an international standard for describing public software, which should be placed at the root of Free/Libre and Open Source software repositories.

This parser performs syntactic and semantic validation according to the official spec.

Examples

Include this action in your repo by creating .github/workflows/publiccode-yml-validation.yml and edit where needed:

on: [pull_request]

jobs:
  publiccode_yml_validation:
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
    name: publiccode.yml validation
    steps:
    - uses: actions/checkout@v2
    - uses: italia/publiccode-parser-action@v1
      with:
        publiccode: 'publiccode.yml' # relative path to your publiccode.yml
        comment-on-pr: true
      env:
        REVIEWDOG_GITHUB_API_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}

No comments in PR

If you don't want this action to report results as comments in the pull request:

on: [pull_request]

jobs:
  publiccode_yml_validation:
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
    name: publiccode.yml validation
    steps:
    - uses: actions/checkout@v2
    - uses: italia/publiccode-parser-action@v1
      with:
        publiccode: 'publiccode.yml'

Contributing

Contributing is always appreciated. Feel free to open issues, fork or submit a Pull Request. If you want to know more about how to add new fields, check out CONTRIBUTING.md. In order to support other country-specific extensions in addition to Italy some refactoring might be needed.

Maintainers

This software is maintained by the Developers Italia team.

License

© 2020-present Dipartimento per la Trasformazione Digitale - Presidenza del Consiglio dei Ministri

Licensed under the EUPL v1.2. The version control system provides attribution for specific lines of code.

Remarks

This GitHub Action is published in the GitHub Marketplace. As such, you can find the Terms of Service here. Also, here you can find the GitHub Marketplace Developer Agreement.