Technical Team/Minutes/2014-01-28

Jan 28, 2014

Attendees

Reviewed Turtle proposal
- More readable the XML
- Concerns on not being able to easily grep
- Nesting (use of '[ ]') causes the issues with grep
- If we go with Turtle - should we stop supporting RDF/XML and just go with one format?
  - Would greatly simplify the spec and tooling
  - Possible concern with modifications to Turtle format for readibility
Reviewed JSON proposal
- Apeals to most developers
- May apeal to both communities (Linux and Java)
- Does not support Schema's for validation which could be an issue for validation
- People on the call were favorable to JSON as a format
General willingness to explore alternative formats if it helps drive us to a single format
Another possibility is to continue to use the tag/value format using the adjacent tag/value pairs to describe what is contained within the more complex objects
- Not sure if this is doable with the SPDX 2.0 use cases (not sure that it is not doable either)
- Kate will work through some of the use cases and see if this proposal is worth pursuing
Take away: This could be an opportunity to go to a singke format

Bill went over the documented instance diagram for the complete packaged composite dlivery
Suggestion to use a specific example
- Jack will provide a download URL for an example we can use and work with Bill
Use case proposal - Binary distribution
Use case proposal - Distro with a large package contained within it
Use Yocto as an example
Ability to express additional relationships with sufficient power to describe various domains (e.g. embedded systems to high level applications)

Would like to meet the day before
Does anyone have any office space in the bay area?
Kate checking with Linux Foundation to see if we can get a room for the day before.