Technical Team/Minutes/2020-06-02

June 2, 2020

Attendees

• Jim Hutchison
• Rex Jaeschke
• Kate Stewart
• William Bartholomew
• Gary O’Neall
• Nisha Kumar
• Steve Winslow
• John Mudge
• Takashi Ninjouji
• Peter Shin
• Rose Judge
• Thomas Steenbergen

Topics: Rex/John update on 2.2.1 GSoC SPDX Tools

SPDX 2.2.1

• Update from Rex
  • Help wanted on a few issues
  • Making progress
  • Would like to target next week

GSoC

• Met with all the students
• coding has started

SPDX Tools in the Repo

• Java Classic
• Java Tools
• Python
  • Need an update from Philippe
  • Gary offered to help
  • Needs be brought up to 2.2
  • Tern could use the Python library for as a validator
  • Could use the community bridge mentoring program to help – Gary will follow-up on the mentoring call
• GoLang
  • Currently 2.1
  • Next working on 2.2
  • Summer of code project to implement RDF format
• JavaScript
  • Summer of Code project but needs some work
  • Could potentially use Kotlin as a substitute
• Kotlin
  • ORT uses SPDX
  • Could separate out a separate library
• License mapping
  • Left off on how to map the ID’s to the aliases
  • Each language can implement
  • Future topic

SPDX 3.0

• Steve provided an overview of meta-issues
  • Different projects use different terms – agreement to use Meta issue
  • Suggestion to use Github template for the meta issues
    • Steve will create a template for META issues
  • We could use templates for the different profiles
• Labels
  • suggest “profile licensing”
  • suggest “profile base”
  • suggest “profile security”
  • Kate will add some additional profile labels
• No meta issue for security for now – will use labels

Next Week’s Agenda

• 2.2.1 update
• GSoC
• License profile – joint call with legal starting at 15 minutes after the hours