Technical Team/Minutes/2017-02-07

Feb. 7, 2017

Attendees

• Gary O’Neall
• Kate Stewart
• Bill Schineller
• Jack Manbeck
• Thomas Steenbergen

Topics

• Open Source Leadership Conference
• FOSDEM

Open Source Leadership Conference

• No changes or updates

FOSDEM

• Debian ISO image was generated from Fossology – presented
  • Results can be found at http://debian.linutronix.de/spdx/
• People are pulling in NOMOS scanner, may cause forking
  • Suggestion to treat this as a library
• Tom Calloway referenced SPDX in his presentation
• Made contact with OpenBuilder and suggested integration

SPDX Document for Describing an ISO image

• Proposal reviewed at https://docs.google.com/document/d/1KYp10Wy12UqpU5oEUwl76xo9lfSxyxO3Ivo9YQiXUOM/edit
• Pls. review and comment

Q&A / ideas

• Thomas has added several ideas to the specification section on the project list wiki (http://wiki.spdx.org/view/Technical_Team/Ideas_List#SPDX_Specification_in_MarkDown)
• SPDX Specification in Markdown that can be displayed on Github – Thomas is prototyping
• Package Manage examples – document on Wiki or github
• SPDX Views for legal (subsetting spec for legal views)
  • Need for views to breakdown the larger SPDX document into things that can be worked on
  • Involves a workflow with reviews, engineering editors
  • Would like to get to best practices, but we should start with case studies and reviewing current implementations and implementation challenges