2017-06-01¶

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Tech Team Report - Kate/Gary¶

Good progress on getting spec to GitHub
Should have a new version within the next month
Will be adapting processes to new source
Substantively working though list of items for next release
Still up in the air whether we will go to a 2.2 or directly to 3.0
- Need to resolve by Aug
- 2.2 candidates- clean up appendices for license list work, a few additional fields
3.0 will imply compatibility issues
Timeframe depends on above, but likely 2018 in any case
Summer of Code
A number of students have started
Participation in Tech Calls
One just starting to commit to GitHub
Tooling
Moving apace
News- Someone from IBM mentioned they are using SPDX short identifiers internally (at OSCON event).

Lots of activity
XML work still underway; Gary supporting with tooling
Other large threads
Discussion about how to deal with licenses that have been translated
- There is a default policy with which we’ve been consistent
- Re-looking into this in light of new XML stuff and need for automated matching
- JL started a Wiki page to pull together all the proposals
Kate/JL reached out to FSF
- For rallying support
- Issue: how we represent license and “or later” with the syntax sometimes goes unnoticed
- Perhaps recasting as a separate v2 only license is a better way to handle
- But there are implications we need to think through

Basically we are still working on a proposal for how to allow tools to get a badge or certification for working with SPDX documents
and an umbrella project for Github for all of our projects out there.
Kate- also looking to create an archive of past projects which are no longer active
Bakeoff at LinuxCon Europe (October in Prague) is likely.
Working on test suite to be available for this.

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