Technical Team/Minutes/2012-01-31

Attendees

• Gary O’Neall
• Bill Schineller
• Kirsten Newcomer
• Ed Warnicke
• Steve Cropper
• Rana Rahal'
• Jack Manbeck
• Peter Williams

Agenda

• Discussion on SPDX package definitions
• Discuss proposal for hierarchical supply chain (bug 818)

Package definitions

• Start with Wiki’s definitions
• Kate proposed any collection of files
• Jack’s proposal – unit of delivery of software files
  • What is a “unit” of delivery, over time one unit of delivery may not be a unit of delivery later in the supply chain
  • Discussion on package/subpackage supply chain model (manufacturing analogy)
  • Different between unit of consumption vs. unit of delivery
• The current RDF Package definition could be used
• * Discussion on if a single file could be both a package and not a package
• Agreed on the usefulness of a definition “{} represent a collection of one or more files that are delivered as a unit" vs "A package represents a collection of software files that are delivered as a single functional component" from http://spdx.org/system/files/spdx-rdf-terms_27.html#Package

• The “{}” term will be replaced with an agreed upon term (TBD)
• Follow-up on possibly further defining “delivered as a unit”