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April 4, 2017

Attendees

  • Thomas Steenberger
  • Alexios Zavros
  • Yev
  • Brad
  • Uday Korlimarla
  • Philippe Ombredanne
  • Jack Manbeck
  • Kate Stewart

Agenda

  • Google of Summer of Code Approved Projects (Philippe)
  • Tranfer of Specification to GitHub project (Thomas)
  • Review of features for next revision of Specification (Kate & all)

Minutes

  • GSoC
  • GSoC - 4 students slotted and selected.
    • license coverage grader
    • online validation tool - server side. python.
    • validation of license expressions. java
    • github integration.
  • Everything takes place in open. Define logistics.
  • All communication should go through mailing list.
  • Code developed in open in github, private repository, move over afterwards.
  • Frequent online chat with students. use #SPDX channel?
  • Spec Hosting --> Github
  • Thomas demonstrated what he’s done with conversion. github.com/tsteenbe/specification.
  • Finishing off License list expressions. Lot of links still need to be cleaned up.
  • Building it with gitbook.io. Converting to version 4. Thomas waiting for repository on other side.
  • Phillipe: Proposes prefix repo name with SPDX - so spdx-specification. Will relabel existing "spec" as spdx-vocabulary possibly tagging/noting as 1.2, all ok with it.
  • Thomas: Writing in gitbook like plugins. So everyone can contribute.
  • Next Spec
  • Then transitioned to working on Topic list for next rev of specification.
  • https://docs.google.com/document/d/1vJqWGU02ynzrJ5CvmX1z2mBssOSpuBvuKene8jVJGNI/edit
  • Agreement on
    • Deprecating SHA1 (implies next rev will be 3.0)
    • Expanding relationship between elements
  • Need further discussion with missing people on:
    • Relationship between license list elements (Gary)
    • Conditional License Expressions (Mark)

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