Technical Team/Minutes/2019-06-04

June 4, 2019

Attendees

• Gary O’Neall
• Jack Manbeck
• Krys Nuvadga
• Rose Judge
• Alexios Zavras
• Mathew Crawford
• Nisha Kumar
• Steve Winslow

Package Definition

• Reviewed Steve’s proposed definition at https://github.com/spdx/spdx-spec/issues/125
• Discussed subdirectory background
• Discussed if dependencies were really a package
  • Agreed it should be the artifacts referred to by the dependency
• Steve to update the definition

GSoC update

• Updates available at https://gitter.im/spdx-org/Lobby
• Overall, good progress – things moving forward

Java tooling update

• @vlsi is writing a plugin for Gradle which uses SPDX
• Several discussions on refactoring the current SPDX tools to make it more usable
  • Removing some of the heavy dependencies
  • Improving the performance
  • Pre-compiling a JAR file on release of the listed licenses