Technical Team/Minutes/2011-07-28

Minutes 7/28/2011

Attendees:

• Kirsten Newcomer
• Branden Robinson
• Peter Williams
• Kate Stewart
• Steve Cropper
• Jack Manbeck

Agenda:

• Discuss proposal from Steve Cropper for Supplier related fields
• Review open bugs

The team had a good discussion about the new proposed Supplier fields, including discussion of:

• Optional vs. Mandatory
• Reasons for including in GA of 1.0 rather than waiting
• Overlap with need for handling package hierarchies
• Affect on tools
  • suggested that tools could be udpated after GA date
• Use cases, including
  • open source package maintained by loose coalition where no individual has clear ownership
  • open source package where original copyright owner has died
  • package shared between supply chain partners
  • Discussed providing special options as we do for certain other fields such as NOASSERTION, NONE, and possibly ORPHANED

Spec update

• waiting for trademark info from Rockett
• waiting for input from Karen C. on confidentiality

Bug review

We ran out of time to review the bug list, but ask that everyone

• review for any open P1s assigned to them
• review closed bugs to be sure we're in agreement

Corrections, additions welcome.