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General Meeting/Minutes/2018-07-11

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  • 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
  • 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

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