[Feature] A .recomp.json describing the port #263

Before you continue

• I searched the existing issues and nobody has suggested this yet.
• This is about WiiCompiled itself, not WheelWizard or Retro Rewind content.

What would you like to see?

I run recomp.board (https://recomp.fyi), a table of recomps and decomps in progress, so people can see who is working on what before they start a game. WiiCompiled is on it, and so is ral1009/NSMBWiicompiled. The board reads each row from what the repository says about itself, so it can't tell yet that WiiCompiled has public releases, or which disc it needs.

I'm proposing a small open file, .recomp.json, at the root of a game repository: game, system, status, the release the project needs, whether it wants help. Spec: https://recomp.fyi/spec. JSON Schema: https://recomp.fyi/schema/v1.json (both CC BY 4.0). The board reads it every day, and any other list or tool can read the same file.

For WiiCompiled it could be:

{
  "$schema": "https://recomp.fyi/schema/v1.json",
  "game": "Mario Kart Wii",
  "system": "Wii",
  "type": "recomp",
  "project": "WiiCompiled",
  "status": "released",
  "targets": ["Windows", "Linux", "macOS"],
  "original": { "region": "Europe", "serial": "RMCP01" }
}

released is my reading of your releases page; change it if it's wrong. The file is meant to follow the project: when the status changes, editing it updates every list that reads it. A stale file is worse than none.

Workarounds you've tried

None: without the file, lists guess from the README.

neurocontrarian