Technical Team/Minutes/2013-10-22

Oct. 22, 2013

Attendees

• Bill Schineller
• Gary O’Neall
• Mark Gisi
• Michael Herzog
• Kirsten Newcomer
• Scott Sterling
• Jack Manbeck
• Russ Herrold
• Kate Stewart

Agenda

• RDF terms organization on the web page
• Best practices approach update from business team
• SPDX 2.0

RDF Terms Organization

• Overview of Jack’s proposal for archiving old version of RDF terms
  • Under specifications/old versions can be referenced
  • Current version is always at spdx.org/rdf/terms
• Agreed to Jacks proposal
• Note: We do not have the turtle and xml versions of the terms for 1.0 to archive. If anyone has a copy, please send to Jack otherwise we will just go with the HTML version for 1.0.
• Discussion on using git for the spec repository or should we use wiki.
• Agree to have the wiki point to the main website

Business Team proposal for best practices/tech reports

• Business group discussing how to foster more best practices and best practice documentation
• Tech reports would publish something and it would later be promoted to a best practice to the main website
• Email mark.gisi@windriver.com if interested in reviewing the web pages for the tech reports

SPDX 2.0

• Creating an overview of 2.0 page on the wiki
• Contains a milestone list
  • Add acceptance test milestone
  • Add migration plan (1.2 to 2.0) – mapping between features/interoperability between 1.2 and 2.0
  • Add initial terms definition
• Requirement document
  • Currently missing
  • Missing a document describing use cases we actually plan to support in 2.0
  • Desire a succinct statement of what 2.0 will do
  • Proposal that Key Success Factors could provide such a statement
  • Concern raised that the data model is driving the requirements