Technical Team/Minutes/2018-06-05

June 5, 2018

Attendees

• Gary O’Neall
• Yev Bronshteyn
• Steve Winslow
• Krys Nuvadga
• Alexios Zavras
• Tushar Mittal
• Rohit Lodha
• Trevor King
• Ndip Tanyi

GSoC

• Tushar online XML editor, completed upload features – Implemented 4 ways to input editor, working on 2 types of editor – text based and tree based. Include autocomplete and suggestions based on the XML license schema. Started working on the tree based editor.
• From Galo on Gitter: Hello everyone, I have been working on researching how to use the GitHub API, to submit an issue when a new license is submitted since it was defined as a new project requirement. This week I will implement the db and store the licenses request on it. I also expect by the end of the week to read the submitted licenses from the db.
• Ndip – broken project into modules, working on analyzer module – completed, NPM; started on downloader module; resolved python issues
• Updating SPDX library Completed file module, deprecated questions, will start annotation module
  • Issue on deprecated – will support if not too complex
  • Issue on lots of required fields
    • don’t fail on missing mandatory
    • Warnings if missing required – will implement a flag in the validator to be strict
    • Issue outstanding to relax https://github.com/spdx/spdx-spec/issues/29

2.2

• Model updated https://wiki.spdx.org/view/Technical_Team/Model_2_2
• Reviewed the issues list on github filtered by 2.2 release.
• Made some updates for the following issues:
  • Clarify case sensitivity of Short Form licenses - for list and tools. #63
    • Trevor created a pull request to resolve
  • Typo: 2.1 - Fix inconsistent use of spdx: in RDF examples #57
    • Pull request resolves the issue, but has some merge conflicts
  • Consider adopting package-url for external package references #53
    • Reviewed PR #54 to see if it resolves this (https://github.com/spdx/spdx-spec/pull/54#pullrequestreview-126084641)
    • Several comments have been posted