Technical Team/Minutes/2010-12-21

SPDX Technical Call
12/21/2010

Attendees:
Bill Schineller
Gary O'Neall
Peter Williams
Kate Stewart

Review of previous meetings

RDF to Tag notation - Kate to provide a grammer.  Will include the zlib example in the tag/value format

Key discussion point is how the implicit section boundaries will impact forward compatibility (issue 589)

Review of issues recorded in the issue tracking

Issue 590 - How individual files are referenced:
 - Discussed use cases for having a unique reference to a file
 - Discussed whether we should have a single URL for a file
 - Agreed that in the RDF, there needs to be a single URI (whether created by conventions or auto

generated in rdf/xml)
 - Discussed an approach we feel will have merit where the tag/value format has 2 tags for a file

(package + file) and we have some documented conventions for converting between these 2 tags and the RDF

file URI

 - We can use the example created for the tag notation to solidify the proposal

Discussion on the repository
 - git repositories have been setup - the ontology
 - Master will be the official version of the spec
 - Proposal to have a post-commit rake task create the ontology

Need the appendices added to the git repository

Peter will send out an email on how to pull down the spdx-spec from the git repo

All - review the spdx-spec and document any questions/issues