General Meeting/Minutes/2018-07-11

• Attendance: 10
• Lead by Phil Odence
• Minutes of June meeting approved

Guest Presentation, Online XML Editor- Tushar Mittal

• XML Editor for Editing Licenses
  • For contributors to License List
• Demo
  • User can
    • upload flies, or
    • Specify one of the current licenses
  • Options
    • Text, Tree, Split View Editor
    • Text
      • Editor guides to sticking with SPDX license schema
      • Beautify cleans up XML nicely
    • Tree Editor
      • Operates on the same file
      • Easy way to modify attributes
  • Legal team is very enthusiastic about the tool
    • It will make their lives much easier.

Tech Team Report - Gary

• GSoC
  • Good progress across the board
  • Tushar obviously has done some great work
  • Additionally upgrading Python libraries and work on build tools
• Most calls focused on 2.2 list of potential enhancements and issues
  • Progress a little slow due to vacations
• LinuxCon NA, Vancouver
  • There will be some tools work going on
  • Anyone interested should contact Gary or email the list

Outreach Team Report - SteveW

• SPDX short form IDs has gone live
  • Includes guidelines for developers who want to add IDs to their files
  • https://spdx.org/ids

Legal Team Report - Jilayne

• V3.2 of License List just released
  • Will be updating General Mailing list including stats on new licenses
• Continuing to monitor pull requests
• Today’s meeting will recap old/stale

Attendees

• Phil Odence, Black Duck/Synopsys
• Tushar Mittal, GSoC Student
• Gary O’Neall, SourceAuditor
• Yash Nisar, GSoC Student
• Dave Marr, Qualcomm
• Steve Winslow, LF
• Matthew Crawford, ARM
• Mark Atwood, Amazon
• Jilayne Lovejoy, ARM
• Bradlee Edmondson, Harvard