General Meeting/Minutes/2017-09-07

• Attendance: 11
• Lead by Phil Odence
• Minutes of July meeting approved

Guest Presentation - Krys Nuvadga

• Studying sw engineering in Cameroon
• GSoC project: License grader tool.
  • Command line tool that would compare and SPDX doc to Source files
  • To determine the coverage of the info in the SPDX document
• Use cases
  • Scan and pass SPDX doc to get license information in a format to perform calculations
  • Get a source file validator to determine if a particular file was covered
    • Factors considered to determine if something was source file
      • LoC
      • Characters
• Started with a simple case to get running
• Incremental approach
  • Developed module by module
    • Used Python
    • Scanner
    • Source code analysis passing results as XML
    • Results comparison
    • Grading for each package
• Features
  • Scanning
  • Computation on source package
• Status
  • Working
  • Still WIP
  • Refining
  • Addressing performance issues
• Questions
  • why to use
    • To determine how complete the file license information is
  • Will the user get a list of fils without info?
    • Yes

Tech Team Report - Kate/Gary

• Spec
  • All on GItHub now
    • migrated Google doc discussions
  • 2.1.1 version fixing typos
  • 2.2
    • slated for late in the year
    • will include new features
    • feature set still open, please contribute
  • Kate speaking next week at the Open Source Summit talking about testing scanning tools
• Tooling
  • Completing GSoC
    • All students passed
    • All up on GitHub
    • Very successful

Legal Team Report - Jilayne/Paul

• XML Conversion slightly stalled
• “ONLY” issue has required focus
  • Brought up some inconsistencies
  • Lots of discussion on tech and legal calls and joint ones
    • Jilayne summarized in wiki
  • Proposal
    • Add ONLY operator
    • Remove “only” from current names
      • will necessarily cause some backward compatibility issue

Outreach Team Report - Jack

• Working on tool to generate test files for scanners
  • working fine
  • cleaning up documentation
  • will create a test file and will upload it
    • needs a name
    • to be resolved in call today

Attendees

• Phil Odence, Black Duck
• Krys Nuvadga, University of Buea, Cameroon
• Gary O’Neall, SourceAuditor
• Paul Madick, Dimension Data
• Jack Manbeck, TI
• Kate Stewart, Linux Foundation
• Jilayne Lovejoy, ARM
• Matija Suklje, FSFE
• Rashmi Chitrakar, Qualcomm
• Bradlee Edmondson, Harvard
• Thomas Steenbergen, HERE