Technical Team/Minutes/2015-10-20

October 20, 2015

Attendees

• Gary O'Neall
• Yev Bronshteyn
• Bill Schineller
• Kate Stewart
• Scott Sterling

Tools Update

• Additional committer
• Planning a release coming up - not too distant future, just bug fixes

SPDX Examples

• Package Download Locations
  • Add external references guidance in 2.1
• License List
  • How to refer to the license ID's in an external file
  • When/How to propose standard licenses
• We need to capture the results of the last bakeoff and translate into best practices
  • Need consolidate notes
  • Add to Google Docs with comments
  • Notes from the bake-off https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/0B-cBgwWx0N27THR1bXhBaWJQZnM
  • Need to review other notes

Snippets

• Kate will post the link to the current proposal
• Discuss week after next

External Identifiers

• PackageExternalIdentifierTypes
  • Using unique ID - how do we handle the case when promoted to a listed ID
  • If 2 people specify two different unique URI's, how do we reconciled
  • We could include a list of other ID's in the table
• Table headers were updated with new terms (see https://docs.google.com/document/d/1j6LWnkh5GbMV9Xo5_zJ0wTNLROEIa4o1OU279YueI90)
• Default Repository Location
  • Need to define the semantics that if no repository location is specified, the default is used
• External Reference Identifier Example
  • Could be used as a pointer to define the schema
  • Could be from the repo where the actual metadata on the packages is stored
• Proposal with the type being a URI is a concern
• Concern on having any proposal with Other - may need more data
  • Agree that we will table the Other proposals and bring it back up after the rest of the External identifiers are nailed