Technical Team/Minutes/2012-04-04¶
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Minutes for April 4, 2012 Face to Face meeting at Linux Collaboration Summit
Attendees¶
- Marshall Clow
- Kate Stewart
- Ed Warnicke
- Jack Manbeck
- Gary O’Neall
- Peter Williams
- Bill Schineller
- Kirsten Newcomer
Discussed proposed agenda for Thursday afternoon (4/5) meeting¶
- Use case discussion (Thursday)
- Mandatory vs. non-mandatory / backwards compatibility
- SPDX Tech web site
- Review progress; request update from volunteers, and from Steve C.
Steps needed to close on v 1.1 of the spec¶
- Get Tech team to sign off, then publish to general team for final review
- Open issues:
- final pass to ensure RDF and spec are in synch -- Kate
- Appendix 1 will be updated to reflect what’s on the website as of date -- Kate
- Review section 1 to see if it needs to be updated -- Kirsten
- Compare version 1.1 and 1.0 side by side -- Kirsten
- Compare RDF terms, Spec terms, and tool implementation for 1.1 - Gary
- 5.3 & 5.4:
- Per discussion, these fields will be made OPTIONAL -- Kate
- Peter to provide a proposal for how to present RDF examples for these fields
- Provide guidelines to consumers for adopting 1.1
- Minimum: update Data License and Package verification code
- Available OSS tools support multiple versions of the spec
Proposed governance model for SDPX Technical group¶
- Post agenda one day ahead of call
- Kate owns and will delegate as needed
- Proposals to be voted on will be posted to wiki and sent to mailing list
- Votes sent to mailing list
- Votes tabulated on wiki (with names)
- We will use Plus one model for votes
- Plus one (+) is a yes vote
- Minus (-) is a no vote
- Zero (0) is a present / don’t care vote
- Any objection / negative vote results in a call scheduled on the topic
- We assume that if you voted minus, you’ll participate in call
Brief discussion of signing & review fields¶
- Suggest using annotations on already signed files for review data
Discussed schedule for 2.0. Potential schedule¶
- Draft by end of 2012, with beta program
- Need tools lined up to support beta
- Provide v2.0 SPDX document as an example
- 2.0 GA is about 1 year out
Proposed To-Do list for next 12 months¶
- Mailing list for users: spdx-users
- Publicize IRC channel; ensure registered
- Additional tools needed
- SPDX document for existing tools -- Gary
- SPDX validator – enhance viewer
- Reading packages and generating SPDX files – Ninka, Fossology
- Gary has offered to help Fossology
- License matching normalization – Kate & Daniel G.
- License matcher – input text, and check to see if one of the standard licenses, leverage normalization tool
- Existing tools now handle tag value format
- Go between tag and rdf and spreadsheet
- Tooling available with
- Ubuntu – Kate & Gary
- RPM
- SPDX tools available via SaaS model
- Amazon offers an option here
- Gary has an instance already; UI needed
- Ask LF to pay for hosting this instance for fixed domain (Kate/Jack will approach Jim when we’re ready)
- Additional documentation is needed
- Getting Started Guide with SPDX
- YouTube video
- Update tools documentation – Kirsten
- Translated version of v1.1 into Japanese – Kirsten to see if I can find a volunteer to do this by June
- Future: identify process for getting spec and related materials translated by community volunteers
SPDX 2.0 Use Case review & discussion: changes based on discussion captured in wiki changes
- NOTE: Review to continue starting with item 12.
As always, comments and corrections are most welcome!
Kirsten