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June 2, 2020

Attendees

  • Jim Hutchison
  • Rex Jaeschke
  • Kate Stewart
  • William Bartholomew
  • Gary O’Neall
  • Nisha Kumar
  • Steve Winslow
  • John Mudge
  • Takashi Ninjouji
  • Peter Shin
  • Rose Judge
  • Thomas Steenbergen

Topics: Rex/John update on 2.2.1 GSoC SPDX Tools

SPDX 2.2.1

  • Update from Rex
  • Help wanted on a few issues (tagged as help needed)
  • John making progress on translating code into format.
  • Would like to target next week for all issues to be resolved, and put out for general review.

GSoC

  • All mentors have met with their students
  • Coding has started
  • Adding a standing agenda item for the students to ask questions each meeting.

SPDX Tools in the Repo

  • Java
  • Classic Java Tools - Supports 1.2, 2.0, 2.1, 2.2(except for JSON/YAML/XML)
  • New Java Tools - new repo that has API changes from classic java tools. Supports all formats of 2.2
  • Python
  • Need an update from Philippe on what happened to 2.1 port worked on via GSoC last summer
  • Gary offered to help once we have breakdown clarified.
  • Supports 1.2 today, but needs be brought up to 2.2
  • Tern could use the Python library for as a validator
  • Could use the community bridge mentoring program to help – Gary will follow-up on the mentoring call
  • GoLang
  • Currently 2.1
  • Next working on 2.2
  • Summer of code project to implement RDF format being incorporated
  • JavaScript
  • Last year's GSoC project but needs some work
  • Could potentially use Kotlin as a substitute
  • Kotlin
  • ORT uses SPDX
  • Could separate out a separate library
  • License mapping
  • Left off on how to map the ID’s to the aliases
  • Each language can implement
  • Future topic, possibly discuss in ACT.

SPDX 3.0

  • Steve provided an overview of meta-issues
  • Different projects use different terms – agreement to use Meta issue
  • Suggestion to use Github template for the meta issues
    • Steve will create a template for META issues
  • Consider using templates for the different profiles
  • Labels
  • suggest “profile licensing” - ok'd by Steve
  • suggest “profile base” - ok'd by William
  • suggest “profile security” - ok'd by Thomas
  • Kate will add some additional profile labels
  • No meta issue for security for now – will use labels
  • William will look at a meta-profile

Next Week’s Agenda

  • 2.2.1 update
  • GSoC update
  • License profile – joint call with legal starting at 15 minutes after the hours

Categories: Technical