2017-09-07¶

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Guest Presentation - Krys Nuvadga¶

Studying sw engineering in Cameroon
GSoC project: License grader tool.
Command line tool that would compare and SPDX doc to Source files
To determine the coverage of the info in the SPDX document
Use cases
Scan and pass SPDX doc to get license information in a format to perform calculations
Get a source file validator to determine if a particular file was covered
- Factors considered to determine if something was source file
- LoC
- Characters
Started with a simple case to get running
Incremental approach
Developed module by module
- Used Python
- Scanner
- Source code analysis passing results as XML
- Results comparison
- Grading for each package
Features
Scanning
Computation on source package
Status
Working
Still WIP
Refining
Addressing performance issues
Questions
why to use
- To determine how complete the file license information is
Will the user get a list of fils without info?
- Yes

Spec
All on GItHub now
- migrated Google doc discussions
2.1.1 version fixing typos
2.2
- slated for late in the year
- will include new features
- feature set still open, please contribute
Kate speaking next week at the Open Source Summit talking about testing scanning tools
Tooling
Completing GSoC
- All students passed
- All up on GitHub
- Very successful

XML Conversion slightly stalled
“ONLY” issue has required focus
Brought up some inconsistencies
Lots of discussion on tech and legal calls and joint ones
- Jilayne summarized in wiki
Proposal
- Add ONLY operator
- Remove “only” from current names
- will necessarily cause some backward compatibility issue

Working on tool to generate test files for scanners
working fine
cleaning up documentation
will create a test file and will upload it
- needs a name
- to be resolved in call today

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