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Technical Team/Minutes/2020-08-04
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August 4, 2020
Contents
Attendees
- Kate Stewart
- Thomas Steenbergen
- William Bartholomew
- Steve Winslow
- Gary O’Neall
- Rose Judge
- Peter Shin
Topics:
- SPDX 3.0 Document Structure
- GSoC Update
- SPDX Online Tools
- Security related – LF security
GSoC Update
- All students passed
- Some issues making good progress on the generating Java code from XSD – more complex than we originally thought
- Some issues with communications
- Rishabh has been keeping a log on Google Docs which is a good practice
- Kate will suggest on gitter that all students adopt this practice.
SPDX Online Tools Web Application
- Funding goal for the SPDX online tools was achieved through community bridge
- Enough funding for 14 months of hosting
- See meta issue for current status and progress https://github.com/spdx/spdx-online-tools/issues/199
- Request to add SPDX document – see issue https://github.com/spdx/spdx-online-tools/issues/209
- Thomas is also looking for funding through ACT for ORT
- Discussed possibility of sharing infrastructure
- Thomas suggested using Lightsail rather than RDS for the PostgreSQL database
SPDX Document Structure
- Update to model
- Added name to Artifact
- Document proposal to break down into clauses
- Constrained by ISO to not having sub-sections or clauses
- Structure on subclasses
- Suggested we having a naming standard for the clauses that indicate the subclasses
- Structure
- Moving external document references to the linking profile
- Concern about requiring all the requirements of linking profile
- Possible 2 profiles, one for document linking and a stronger one for InToto
- Concern about having required information for being able to link to a document
- General agreement
- Would like to simplify the approach language
- Several possible solutions including the PURL
- SPDX Lite – should it be part of licensing or separate profile?
- Suggestion to introduce pre-requisite profiles
- Concern about requiring all the requirements of linking profile
Next Week
- Continue discussion on container SBOM relationships
- Aug 11 Legal profile