Technical Team/Minutes/2012-01-31

Minutes 1/31/2012

Attendees:

•         Gary O’Neall
•         Bill Schineller
•         Kirsten Newcomer
•         Ed Warnicke
•         Steve Cropper
•         Rana Rahal
•         Jack Manbeck
•         Peter Williams

Agenda:

• ·         Discussion on SPDX package definitions
• ·         Discuss proposal for hierarchical supply chain (bug 818)

Package definitions:

-          Start with Wiki’s definitions

-          Kate proposed any collection of files

-          Jack’s proposal – unit of delivery of software files

•   What is a “unit” of delivery, over time one unit of delivery may not be a unit of delivery later in the supply chain
•  Discussion on package/subpackage supply chain model [manufacturing analogy]
•   Different between unit of consumption vs. unit of delivery

-          The current RDF Package definition could be used

•   Discussion on if a single file could be both a package and not a package

 

-          Agreed on the usefulness of a definition “{} represent a collection of one or more files that are delivered as a unit" vs "A package represents a collection of software files that are delivered as a single functional component" from <a href="http://spdx.org/system/files/spdx-rdf-terms_27.html#Package">http://spdx.org/system/files/spdx-rdf-terms_27.html#Package</a>

•   The “{}” term will be replaced with an agreed upon term (TBD)
•   Follow-up on possibly further defining “delivered as a unit”