Technical Team/Minutes/2012-04-04

Minutes for April 4, 2012 Face to Face meeting at Linux Collaboration Summit

Attendees:

Marshall Clow

Kate Stewart

Ed Warnicke

Jack Manbeck

Gary O’Neall

Peter Williams

Bill Schineller

Kirsten Newcomer

 

Discussed proposed agenda for Thursday afternoon (4/5) meeting

• Use case discussion (Thursday)
• Mandatory vs. non-mandatory / backwards compatibility
• SPDX Tech web site
  • Review progress; request update from volunteers, and from Steve C.

 Steps needed to close on v 1.1 of the spec

• Get Tech team to sign off, then publish to general team for final review
• Open issues:
  • final pass to ensure RDF and spec are in synch -- Kate
  • Appendix 1 will be updated to reflect what’s on the website as of date -- Kate
  • Review section 1 to see if it needs to be updated  -- Kirsten
  • Compare version 1.1 and 1.0 side by side -- Kirsten
  • 5.3 & 5.4:
    • Per discussion, these fields will be made OPTIONAL -- Kate
    • Peter to provide a proposal for how to present RDF examples for these fields
• Provide guidelines to consumers for adopting 1.1
  • Minimum: update Data License and Package verification code
  • Available OSS tools support multiple versions of the spec

 Proposed governance model for SDPX Technical group

• Post agenda one day ahead of call
• Kate owns and will delegate as needed
• Proposals to be voted on will be posted to wiki and sent to mailing list
• Votes sent to mailing list
• Votes tabulated on wiki (with names)
• We will use Plus one model for votes
  • Plus one (+) is a yes vote
  • Minus (-) is a no vote
  • Zero (0) is a present / don’t care vote
• Any objection / negative vote results in a call scheduled on the topic
  • We assume that if you voted minus, you’ll participate in call

Brief discussion of signing & review fields

• Suggest using annotations on already signed files for review data

Discussed schedule for 2.0. Potential schedule:

• Draft by end of 2012, with beta program
  • Need tools lined up to support beta
  • Provide v2.0 SPDX document as an example
  • 2.0 GA is about 1 year out

Proposed To-Do list for next 12 months

• Mailing list for users: spdx-users
• Publicize IRC channel; ensure registered
• Additional tools needed
• SPDX document for existing tools -- Gary
• SPDX validator – enhance viewer
• Reading packages and generating SPDX files – Ninka, Fossology
  • Gary has offered to help Fossology
• License matching normalization – Kate
• License matcher – input text, and check to see if one of the standard licenses, leverage normalization tool
• Existing tools now handle tag value format
  • Go between tag and rdf and spreadsheet
• Tooling available with
  • Ubuntu – Kate & Gary
  • RPM
• SPDX tools available via SaaS model
  • Amazon offers an option here
  • Gary has an instance already; UI needed
  • Ask LF to pay for hosting this instance for fixed domain (Kate/Jack will approach Jim when we’re ready)
• Additional documentation is needed
• Getting Started Guide with SPDX
• YouTube video
• Update tools documentation – Kirsten
• Translated version of v1.1 into Japanese – Kirsten to see if I can find a volunteer to do this by June
• Future: identify process for getting spec and related materials translated by community volunteers

SPDX 2.0 Use Case review & discussion: changes based on discussion captured in wiki changes

• NOTE: Review to continue starting with item 12.

 

As always, comments and corrections are most welcome!

Kirsten