Technical Team/Minutes/2017-01-17

Jan. 17, 2017

Attendees

• Gary O’Neall
• Yev Bronshteyn
• Kate Stewart

SPDX Tools

• Yev completed the migration to the new version of Jena
• The changes require Java 8 or greater
• Yev will produce a pull request to review the changes
• Proposal to create a branch for the current release and merge the pull request into the master branch

Attribution documentation

• Kate updated the google doc at https://docs.google.com/document/d/1wG9ZpoEy9Dy9bBRNncWiK8GTiaPdZyfPgYQwUySjA5Q/edit to include all the suggestions
• Reviewed comments and changes
• Kate will publish the completed Pseudocode

Next Steps for Best Practices

• Consolidate/publish best practices
  • Wiki page is available at http://wiki.spdx.org/view/Technical_Team/Best_Practices
  • Google Doc available at https://docs.google.com/document/d/1f_smJkJgpj8NPCWe-zwfNnqU7QguISAi4jVY6g6gNaQ/edit#heading=h.9cwa4yo02xzg
  • Kate will merge into the Google docs
• Use cases to add to best practices
  • Example: How do you document the contents of a archive file in SPDX?
  • Pseudocode for generating an SPDX document for a distro
• Review all of the use cases to build a list of additional best practices to add

Next week

• Review merged best practices document