Technical Team/Minutes/2011-05-24

Attendees

Various edit passes completed on Spec
Waiting for feedback from additional members of legal team
Kate will continue to consolidate edits and requests that edits be saved either in Open Office or .doc format for Word (Word '97-2004) to ensure edits are not lost
OSI is going to adopt same short form names as SPDX

Tools -- Gary
- tools are ready except for one item (see below)
- would like some volunteers to test
- need closure on ArtifactOf URI proposal
  - CONCLUDED:
  - If there is a known location for a doap:Project document on the web, RDF will use this as the resource URI (i.e. a named node); this will be the value for ArtifactOf URI in the tag/value format
  - If there is no known location for a DOAP document on the web, RDF may represent as an anonymous node; in the tag/value format, ArtifactOfURI will have the value ‘UNKNOWN’
  - RDF may generate a URI named node for the doap:Project even if document is not on the web, so that single node may be referenced in the RDF graph.
  - If translating from tag/value format to RDF format, translator may choose to generate a single URI any referenced doap:Project having name and homepage pair are the same
  - Comments: this would make the RDF graph neater, but adds work to translator
Technical Doc -- Kirsten
- Technical training PPT needs updating due to some terminology change
- Kirsten to send suggested updates to Kim
There was also some general discussion about having a way to inline contents of a package. Topic was raised by Brandon Robinson.
- Brandon stated that this has been raised by some of their supply chain
- Kate mentioned that there are technical issues with embedding pkg contents
- Group agreed that this is not required (or even requested) for beta

SPDX Whitepaper referenced on both the Home page and the Specification page needs updating.
- Owners: Phil Odence and Kim Weins.
- Kate will provide a technical review after update.
http://spdx.org/licenses/
- Title needs to be changed to "SPDX License List"
- Text needs to be modified to read: "This following is a list of all liceneses currently registered with SPDX as of <date>."
- Owners: Martin M. and Gary (?)
http://spdx.org/rdf/terms
- Contents are up to date
http://spdx.org/spec/guidelines
- Currently empty. Assumption is that this will be populated during beta.
- Owner: Kim Weins (?)
http://spdx.org/spec/examples
- There was some discussion about the best way to organize the information on this page. No final conclusions reached. Proposals included
  - Provide a separate page for each type of example
  - Keep current examples all on one page (fewer clicks)
  - Provide an archive folder for older examples
  - Currently, older examples are hidden
- Requested that the sub-team reviewing SPDX website organization create a working group page for itself to make it easier for others to follow progress and provide feedback
- Owner: Kirsten

As always, please send additions or corrections.