General Meeting/Minutes/2016-04-07

• Attendance: 14
• Lead by Phil Odence

• Minutes of March meeting approved

Special Guest Star - Kris Reeves

• Background
  • Working with the team over the past few months
  • Focused on improving templates and matching process
  • Has been building tools for his NodeJS environment to discover licenses to meet client needs
  • Created a tool that makes a binary decision about whether there are any problematic licenses, yes or no
  • Wasn’t working well initially because of “naive” approach in the package he was using Node License Finder
  • Found 3 packages that were trying to do this
    • Node Packet Manager used SPDX short names
    • Which got Kris onto SPDX
    • Tool was not using matching guidelines properly
  • So Kris got onto trying to trying to fix
• SPDX Work
  • Felt there needed to be some changes
  • Started submitted bug reports
  • Conclusion:
    • The templates were the right place to address issues he was running into
    • Developed tool in parallel to working on:
      • More Mark Up
        • A big jump
        • XML files that contain all info about a license
        • Obsoleting spreadsheet
      • Better Mark Up
        • XML is familiar and available
        • Self-contained
        • Better to have the matching info in the data for tool consistency
      • Easier Contribution
        • Separate GIt repo, bugzilla, etc system make contribution awkward
        • Feels GitHub web interface streamlines all that, so advocating we migrate in that direction
    • Ideally all this reduces workload on Jilayne
    • Status
      • Has taken passes at converting licenses and submitted pull request
      • Still some issues he’ll work on this weekend.
      • Getting very close

Tech Team Report - Kate/Gary

• Specification Update:
  • Good Collab Summit
    • Office hours talk kicked off with some good brainstorming on aggregating SPDX docs
      • Package referring to other packages and best ways to refer to and store relationships
    • Gary and Kris’ prevention was well received.
    • Spec review went very well
      • Bill and Yev are looking at adding some new classes
      • Helpful input from Robin Gandi
    • Looking for wider feedback in May and new release in June.
      • Possible August plug fest
    • FOSSology team did a talk that included SPDX
• This week’s call
  • Addressed all open items from Collab Summit
• Tools Update:
  • Bracing for spec to be finished to update tools
  • Kris has contributed some great tooling as well

Outreach Team Report - Jack

• Website
  • New site is now staged
  • Reviewed at Collab Summit
    • Some limitations we will need to work around
    • Navigation really needs sorting out
  • Still hoping for April launch
• Webinars
  • Met with LF Marketing Team
  • Will help us with a webinar as a trial
  • Jack creating one pager to advertise
  • Suggested piggy backing on a new initiative being launched in July- Professional Open Source

Legal Team Report - Jilayne/Paul

• License list v2.4 is up
• Lots of work on new format that Kris talked about
  • Legal team needs to review how the output looks
  • And to take another pass at the licenses
• Special legal team meeting today immediately following

Cross Functional Topics - Phil

• Google SoC
  • We are on the list of LF projects
  • No requests yet, but expecting some
• Still looking for special guest stars to speak at General Meetings
  • Jilayne has an idea for July.

Attendees

• Phil Odence, Black Duck
• Kate Stewart, Linux Foundation
• Pierre LaPointe, nexB
• Jilayne Lovejoy, ARM
• Mark Gisi, Wind River
• Michael Herzog- nexB
• Dave Marr, Qualcomm
• Jack Manbeck, TI
• Kris Reeves
• Scott Sterling, Palamida
• Josiah Krutz, UNO
• Matt Germonprez, UNO
• Gary O’Neill, SourceAuditor
• Paul Madick, Dimension Data