Technical Team/Minutes/2019-04-09

April 4, 2019

Attendees

• Kate Stewart
• Gary O'Neall
• Steve Winslow
• Tushar Mittal
• Krys Nuvadga

GSoC

• Updated repository proposals
  • Merged some of the external repository features as a library into 4.1
  • Added an external library management idea based on feedback from student who was working on the external repository (previously 4.2)
• 1 draft – not sure which one this is
• 18 Final proposals in 8 categories:
  • Additional support for Python Libraries: 2
  • Distributed license management application: 1 + 1 draft
  • Online license requests: 2
  • Porting SPDX libraries to JavaScript: 2
  • Nampespace registry: 2 - Tushar
  • SPDX Document Generators: 3
  • SPDX Spec as PDF and HTML: 3
  • GoLang: 2 + 1 draft
  • Porting license expression library: 1
• 11 Mentors
• Number of Slots: 8, 7 if golang doesn’t work
  • Steve and Krys are going through the proposals and see if we can fill the Golang slot
  • Kate – will look at the docs
• Next steps – request slots by April 22
• Create shared sheet doc for mentors to vote on proposals
• Mentors to sign up on agree to mentor for students
• Choose projects before May 1

Next Week

• Review of the GSoC evaluation spreadsheet spreadsheet format
  • Criteria – Motivation to remain in the community
  • Scale make sure we are in synch with the definition
• Decide on the number of slots