Technical Team/Minutes/2017-07-04

July 4, 2017

Attendees

• Gary O’Neall
• Thomas Steenberg
• Anna Buhman
• Yev Bronshteyn
• Kate Stewart
• Philippe Ombredanne
• Krys Nuvadga
• Rohit Lodha
• Alexios Zavras
• Aleksandr Lisianoi

SPDX Spec Git Repo

• Thomas has moved the SPDX spec over to github.com/spdx
• Automatically generates HTML on commits
• Some problems remain
  • Linking to sections not working (limitation of markdown)
• Gitbook used for publishing HTML
• NPM package can be made available
  • Agreed that NPM package can be published
• Discussed contributing and branching strategies
  • Three alternatives discussed:
    • Master is the current release, Develop branch used for development (default branch)
    • Release branches – 3.0, etc.
    • Only a master branch with pull requests used for any changes – would need to create maintenance branch
    • Agreed on having release branches – Kate will write up for review

Next SPDX Specification

• Same model for listed licenses and non-listed licenses
  • Including the matching guidelines (template text)
  • Breaking the proposal into 2 separate proposals:
    • Remodeling the listed license and extracted licenses to have more common fields
      • Should also consider extracted licenses
    • Bringing some of the license XML input formats into the output formats so they can be reliably referenced by tools