Technical Team/Minutes/2011-05-24

Attendees

• Kate Stewart
• Kirsten Newcomer
• Bill Schineller
• Gary O’Neall
• Peter Williams
• Marshall Clow
• Branden Robinson
• Steve Cropper

Agenda

• Report on General team meeting
• Beta readiness and ArtifactOf URI proposal
• Specification and Technical web page review/cleanup

Report on General team meeting -- Kate

• Various edit passes completed on Spec
• Waiting for feedback from additional members of legal team
• Kate will continue to consolidate edits and requests that edits be saved either in Open Office or .doc format for Word (Word '97-2004) to ensure edits are not lost
• OSI is going to adopt same short form names as SPDX

Beta readiness

• Tools -- Gary
  • tools are ready except for one item (see below)
  • would like some volunteers to test
  • need closure on ArtifactOf URI proposal
    • CONCLUDED:
    • If there is a known location for a doap:Project document on the web, RDF will use this as the resource URI (i.e. a named node); this will be the value for ArtifactOf URI in the tag/value format
    • If there is no known location for a DOAP document on the web, RDF may represent as an anonymous node; in the tag/value format, ArtifactOfURI will have the value ‘UNKNOWN’
    • RDF may generate a URI named node for the doap:Project even if document is not on the web, so that single node may be referenced in the RDF graph.
    • If translating from tag/value format to RDF format, translator may choose to generate a single URI any referenced doap:Project having name and homepage pair are the same
    • Comments: this would make the RDF graph neater, but adds work to translator
• Technical Doc -- Kirsten
  • Technical training PPT needs updating due to some terminology change
  • Kirsten to send suggested updates to Kim
• There was also some general discussion about having a way to inline contents of a package. Topic was raised by Brandon Robinson.
  • Brandon stated that this has been raised by some of their supply chain
  • Kate mentioned that there are technical issues with embedding pkg contents
  • Group agreed that this is not required (or even requested) for beta

Web page review and cleanup -- all

• SPDX Whitepaper referenced on both the Home page and the Specification page needs updating.
  • Owners: Phil Odence and Kim Weins.
  • Kate will provide a technical review after update.
• http://spdx.org/licenses/
  • Title needs to be changed to "SPDX License List"
  • Text needs to be modified to read: "This following is a list of all liceneses currently registered with SPDX as of <date>."
  • Owners: Martin M. and Gary (?)
• http://spdx.org/rdf/terms
  • Contents are up to date
• http://spdx.org/spec/guidelines
  • Currently empty. Assumption is that this will be populated during beta.
  • Owner: Kim Weins (?)
• http://spdx.org/spec/examples
  • There was some discussion about the best way to organize the information on this page. No final conclusions reached. Proposals included
    • Provide a separate page for each type of example
    • Keep current examples all on one page (fewer clicks)
    • Provide an archive folder for older examples
    • Currently, older examples are hidden
  • Requested that the sub-team reviewing SPDX website organization create a working group page for itself to make it easier for others to follow progress and provide feedback
  • Owner: Kirsten

As always, please send additions or corrections.