Technical Team/Minutes/2018-10-30

October 30, 2018

Attendees

• Kate Stewart
• Gary O'Neall
• Michael Herzog
• Steve Winslow
• Mathew Crawford
• James Neushul

Translation

• Japanese translation available
• Need to figure out how to add to the translation to the repositories

Documentation for SPDX including SEVA

• James provided a document
• Produced from the XML document
• Extension to allow security classifications for each element (e.g. confidential)
  • Uses ISM schema
• Discussion on approach
  • Document in sections vs get experience with proposed sections prior to specifying
  • Document in sections first is the traditional approach for SPDX, may have “culture shock” switching to a more prototyping approach
  • Danger in specifying first – may create implementation challenges and may create specs that are not widely used
• Discussion on scope and prioritization
  • Large scope – many new sections and properties
  • Suggestion to prioritize by importance and ease of standardization
• Discussion on the modeling
  • Agreed modeling will be helpful
• Plan going forward:
  • Next week Mathew will review some of the new sections/areas being proposed and help prioritize which areas would be most useful
  • Next week’s call will focus on the use cases / prioritization
  • In 2 weeks, Gary will propose an update to the model which will include the higher priority areas/sections