Difference between revisions of "Technical Team/Minutes/2012-01-31"

<p><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: medium;">Minutes 1/31/2012</span></p><p><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: medium;">Attendees:</span></p><ul><li>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; <span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: medium;">Gary O’Neall</span></li><li>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; <span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: medium;">Bill Schineller</span></li><li>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: medium;">Kirsten Newcomer</span></li><li>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; <span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: medium;">Ed Warnicke</span></li><li>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; <span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: medium;">Steve Crawford</span></li><li>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; <span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Rana Rahal<em></em></span></span></li><li>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; <span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Jack Manbeck</span></span></li><li><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Peter Williams</span></span></li></ul><p><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: medium;">Agenda:</span></p><ul><li><span style="font-size: medium;">·</span>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; <span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: medium;">Discussion on SPDX package definitions</span></li><li><span style="font-size: medium;">·</span>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; <span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: medium;">Discuss proposal for hierarchical supply chain (bug 818)</span></li></ul><p><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: medium;">Package definitions:</span></p><p><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: medium;">-</span>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; <span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: medium;">Start with Wiki’s definitions</span></p><p><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: medium;">-</span>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; <span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: medium;">Kate proposed any collection of files</span></p><p><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: medium;">-</span>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; <span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: medium;">Jack’s proposal – unit of delivery of software files</span></p><ul><li>&nbsp; <span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: medium;">What is a “unit” of delivery, over time one unit of delivery may not be a unit of delivery later in the supply chain</span></li><li>&nbsp;<span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: medium;">Discussion on package/subpackage supply chain model [manufacturing analogy]</span></li><li>&nbsp; <span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: medium;">Different between unit of consumption vs. unit of delivery</span></li></ul><p><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: medium;">-</span>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; <span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: medium;">The current RDF Package definition could be used</span></p><ul><li>&nbsp; <span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: medium;">Discussion on if a single file could be both a package and not a package</span></li></ul><p><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: medium;">-</span>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; <span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: medium;">“whatever” represent a collection of files made available for use</span></p><p><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: medium;">-</span>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; <span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: medium;">Agreed on the usefulness of a definition “’whatever’ represent a collection of files made available for use</span></p><ul><li>&nbsp; <span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: medium;">The “whatever” term will be replaced with an agreed upon term (TBD)</span></li><li>&nbsp; <span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: medium;">Follow-up on possibly further defining “made available for use”</span></li></ul><p><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: medium;">&nbsp;</span></p>