Technical Team/Minutes/2020-08-04

August 4, 2020

Attendees

Topics:

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.

Funding goal for the SPDX online tools was achieved through community bridge
- Enough funding for 14 months of hosting
- A big Thank you to all supporters! https://funding.communitybridge.org/projects/f0e320d6-9c86-4656-ad4d-97842f25b124/financial
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

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