Technical Team/Minutes/2017-06-13

June 13, 2017

Attendees

• Gary O’Neall
• Thomas Steenberg
• Kate Stewart
• Anna Buhman
• Krys Nuvadga
• Alexios Zavras
• Yev Bronshteyn
• Uday Korlimarla

Spec Git Repository

• https://github.com/tsteenbe/spdx-spec
• Nearly complete
• Releases fixed
• History is in sync with the SPDX release dates
• Need to add contributing.md
• Worked needed for TravisCI

Next Release Project

• see https://github.com/tsteenbe/spdx-spec
• Discussion on optional fields
  • Agree to make snippet byte range optional
  • PackageLicenseDeclared
    • Semantics different from other fields
  • VerificationCode
    • Discussed public repositories having a checksum already

^^^ Discussed whether required since file checksums are in the SPDX document – although there is also a proposal to not include all files in the SPDX document

• • • Tabled the discussion for now
  • Document namespace – needed for external document references.
    • Some confusion on how to apply – seems arbitrary
    • Only requirement is that it is unique
    • Agree to update the documentation and add best practices to describe this field more clearly
  • Document name
    • Required for the RDF model
    • Could provide some best practices and/or better documentation
    • Proposal to have a default of “Document” since we have a namespace