Technical Team/Minutes/2019-04-16

April 16, 2019

Attendees

• Kate Stewart
• Gary O'Neall
• Matthew Crawford
• Philppe Omberdanne
• Rohit Lodha
• Steve Winslow
• Jack Manbeck
• Tushar Mittal
• Yev Bronshteyn

GSoC

• 20 Final proposals in 9 categories:
  • Additional support for Python Libraries: 2
    • Potential mentor(s): Krys (Primary), ?Uday, Philippe – backup, secondary
  • Distributed license management application: 2
    • Potential mentor(s): Rohit (Primary), Tushar, Gary
  • Online license requests: 2
    • Potential mentor(s): Gary, Tushar (Primary)
  • Porting SPDX libraries to JavaScript: 2
    • Potential mentor(s): Dan, Matthew, Philippe, Uday (Primary)
  • Nampespace registry: 2
    • Potential mentor(s): Gary (Primary), Tushar
  • SPDX Document Generators: 3
    • Potential mentor(s): Kate (Primary), Uday, Matthew
  • SPDX Spec as PDF and HTML: 3
    • Potential mentor(s): Jack (Primary), Krys
  • GoLang: 3
    • Potential mentor(s): Steve (Primary), Rohit
  • Porting license expression library: 1
    • Potential mentor(s): None, ?Philippe, Ruby and Java -
• Mentors who have not signed up: Kate, Mark, Philippe, Uday (willing to support JavaScript)
• Questions: Porting license expression library – Philippe available?
  • Philippe will review the proposal. Looks like it involves Ruby and Java
• agreed on 6 to 8 proposal slots
  • Some discussion on reducing the number of slots due to admin overhead

Update from LLW Barcelona

• Discussion on tools/technical, more than previous years
• Progress on turning GPL variants into SPDX identifiers
• Debate over the definition of open source software
• Good option of SPDX and tools – good progress since the last 12 months