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Technical Team/Minutes/2017-09-26

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Sept. 26, 2017

Attendees

  • Gary O’Neall
  • Kate Stewart
  • Uday Shankar
  • Thomas Steenbergen
  • Alexios Zavras
  • Philippe Ombredanne
  • Jack Manbeck

SPDX License Test Files

  • Discussed different use cases
  • Test license scanner (original use case)
  • Test license code generator
  • Test license matching (e.g. individual text compared SPDX listed license using matching license guidelines)
  • How to determine the expected outcome of a test
  • Use an SPDX file to describe expected output
  • File naming convention -
    • Restricts different more complex tests
  • Use a YAML file
    • May be difficult to find the specific files for test cases
  • Tarball or files
  • Agree repository should use files
  • File Naming convention
  • Do we use the directory to denote the test types?
  • Next Week:
  • Agree on directory and file structure
  • Agree on any additional test data metadata format (e.g. YAML, JSON, SPDX, etc.)

Categories: Minutes, Technical