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Technical Team/Minutes/2020-03-03

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March 3, 2020

Attendees

  • Rose Judge
  • Steve Winslow
  • Alexios Zavras
  • Gary O’Neall
  • Philippe Ombredanne
  • Peter Shin
  • Rohit Lodha

GSoC

  • Discuss proposal for Node RDF/XML format
  • Previous version of GoLang RDF support had issues with number of dependencies, has not been merged into the main project
  • Proposal to do a native RDF parser
    • Rohit willing to mentor
    • Update Wiki page – add improve RDF/XML golang
    • Get back on Gitter – OK to proceed, higher priority on the existing project idea, but would be useful
  • Support for 2.2, YAML and JSON functionality, better validation of values, etc. are higher priorities

Browser Plugin for SPDX

  • Currently in the git browser
  • Published under Alan’s personal account
  • Proposal to move it over to an Official Linux
  • Is there any project proposals to improve
  • Add to project ideas page if interested
  • Alexios to write up proposal

License Namespace

  • Review of proposal – PR #209
  • Idea – use of external document license references
  • DocumentRef-xxxx:LicenseRef-yyyy
  • Can we define a special syntax for DocumentRef which would refer to external repositories of licenses?
  • Repository implemented in last year’s GSoC
  • Gary to email Thomas the project overview
  • Discussion on syntax
  • General agreement for a proposal to use a namespace prefix followed by a colon before LicenseRef- See issue #209 for details on the proposal.

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