Technical Team/Minutes/2015-04-28

April 28, 2015

Attendees

• Gary O'Neall
• Jack Manbeck
• Scott Sterling
• Bill Schineller
• Kate Stewart
• Mark Gisi
• Michael Herzog
• Hassib Khanafer

Agenda

• Review proposed changes to SPDX 2.0
• Remaining items before release
• Apache tools collaboration

Review proposed changes to SPDX 2.0

• Reviewed Jilayne's comment, none and noassertion - we agreed that it is a substantial change and would be best to add it as a bug for next release. Kate will add to bug list.
• Mark to contribute some wording improvements to Google Doc

- instead of Conjunctive/Disjunctive, refer to License Expression Syntax

Remaining items before release

• RDF Terms - Gary to send out email asking for feedback by Friday. Gary will also make the RDF ontology source file available.
• SPDX Tools - Jack will post the latest tools Gary sent him once the site is updated.
• Jack will update site Fri/Sat unless showstopper email from Gary by Friday

• Kate will generate a PDF document and upload to the Wiki within the next couple of days

Apache tools collaboration

• Kate got feedback from the Linux Foundation - no issues with contributing the tools code to Apache.
• Agreed we should have one umbrella project for all the SPDX Tools (analagous to http://incubator.apache.org/odftoolkit/) including:
  • re-brand the 'pretty printer' as a Validator
  • compare tool
  • Maven plugin https://github.com/goneall/spdx-maven-plugin
  • University of Nebraska at Omaha tools
  • Samsung provided tools
  • last year's Google Summer of Code tools
• The more community activity we have on an incubator project, the more likely it will graduate from the incubator
• Gary will reach out to the other SPDX community tools providers (Matt/University of Nebraska at Omaha, Samsung, Google Summer of Code Contributors) and see if they would support moving their code to an Apache incubator project.
• Once we have the list of tools pulled together, Kate will reach out to her contact at Apache for sponsorship.