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Brad Edmondson #2243 Thanks Gary, I think this is interesting, but I wonder if we can get the same benefit for a lot less work if we whip up a little documentation on how to use a couple of existing XML editors with the XSD schema file (I haven't even tried to get this working but assume it is possible). That wouldn't give us a web-based dev environment, but I don't think we need that if we can get the changed made and new files added that we need. (Actually now that I mention web-based dev, potentially we could document how to use an existing web-based IDE to edit the repo.) What do people think of going in that direction? Best, Brad -- Brad Edmondson, Esq. 512-673-8782 \| brad.edmondson@... toggle quoted message Show quoted text On Thu, Mar 22, 2018 at 3:52 PM, Krys Nuvadga <tetechris20@...> wrote: Hi Gary, It's a genuine concern you just raised. But I'll rather the milestones for the the two projects be spell out clearly and then we can pick two students to work on them. I think we already have some proposals for the License Submittal project that make mention of the including the License XML editor. Adding that with Django the separate idea can be be developed on the existing Online tool as Django apps, just to avoid the code overlap and not spread resources unnecessarily. Krys Nuvadga On Thu, Mar 22, 2018 at 8:33 PM, <gary@...> wrote: Background: The GSoC project idea Add New License Submittal Feature to Online Tool is quite popular with students – at least 4 proposals are in progress for this one project. Since we can only select one of the proposals, I would like to add another project idea of similar scope and usefulness to the community as an alternative project for students. The deadline for submittals is coming up quickly – next Tuesday 27^th! One concern I have with the proposal is there is some overlap in code functionality with the existing license submittal project idea. I personally think it would be fine to have this overlap and allow some duplication of code for the two projects. Once the projects are complete, we could have a separate task to refactor and reduce the duplication. Action requested: For the legal team – please review the proposal below and reply if you feel this tool proposal would be useful by end of day Friday. For the technical team, please provide feedback if you feel this proposal has too much technical overlap with the existing proposals. Proposal: Add a License XML Editor The SPDX license list (see https://spdx.org/licenses/) is maintained by the SPDX legal team. The source for the license list is maintained in the SPDX license-list-XML github repository (https://github.com/spdx/license-list-XML). Making changes to the license requires manually editing an XML file which can be challenging for contributors not familiar with XML. An online program could be created which would take as input a license XML file uploaded from the client machine to the server. The editor would allow editing of all of the XML fields as well as the optional and alternate text properties. The editor would then save the changes and allow the updated file to be downloaded to the user’s client machine. An optional feature would be to allow the input to be an existing license in the repository and automatically create a pull request with the changes. Another optional feature would be to allow copy/paste of the license XML text into a text pane rather than uploading/downloading the file. This project could be implemented in Python in the existing online tools. Skills Needed · Development skills in the Python language · Knowledge of Git · Understanding of XML Available Mentors Gary O'Neall Rohit Lodha ------------------------------------------------- Gary O'Neall Principal Consultant Source Auditor Inc. Mobile: 408.805.0586 Email: gary@... _______________________________________________ Spdx-tech mailing list Spdx-tech@... https://lists.spdx.org/mailman/listinfo/spdx-tech -- krys Nuvadga Piar, Inc. _______________________________________________ Spdx-tech mailing list Spdx-tech@... https://lists.spdx.org/mailman/listinfo/spdx-tech
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Gary O'Neall #2244 Hi Brad, Thanks for the suggestion. I use a commercial desktop app XML-Spy myself. I looked into open source and web based tools about a year ago before deciding to spend some money on XML-Spy. The web based tools at the time were not that easy to use. Others on the distribution list may have more recent and/or better experiences. I did put up a new project idea before I saw your email. It still may make sense to have a project which will make it easier to create the PR’s. It could incorporate open source web based XML editors as part of the solution. We’ll see if we get any proposals from the students – it is very late in the cycle to suggest new ideas. If we don’t get any accepted proposals, I can take another look at the web based editors and help with the documentation. If we do get accepted proposals, we can suggest the students leverage existing open source XML editor. Gary toggle quoted message Show quoted text From: Brad Edmondson <brad.edmondson@...> Sent: Saturday, March 24, 2018 3:04 PM To: Krys Nuvadga <tetechris20@...> Cc: Gary O'Neall <gary@...>; spdx-tech@...; SPDX-legal <spdx-legal@...> Subject: Re: [spdx-tech] Proposal for a new project idea for GSoC - request quick response from legal and tech teams Thanks Gary, I think this is interesting, but I wonder if we can get the same benefit for a lot less work if we whip up a little documentation on how to use a couple of existing XML editors with the XSD schema file (I haven't even tried to get this working but assume it is possible). That wouldn't give us a web-based dev environment, but I don't think we need that if we can get the changed made and new files added that we need. (Actually now that I mention web-based dev, potentially we could document how to use an existing web-based IDE to edit the repo.) What do people think of going in that direction? Best, Brad -- Brad Edmondson, Esq. 512-673-8782 \| brad.edmondson@... On Thu, Mar 22, 2018 at 3:52 PM, Krys Nuvadga <tetechris20@...> wrote: Hi Gary, It's a genuine concern you just raised. But I'll rather the milestones for the the two projects be spell out clearly and then we can pick two students to work on them. I think we already have some proposals for the License Submittal project that make mention of the including the License XML editor. Adding that with Django the separate idea can be be developed on the existing Online tool as Django apps, just to avoid the code overlap and not spread resources unnecessarily. Krys Nuvadga On Thu, Mar 22, 2018 at 8:33 PM, <gary@...> wrote: Background: The GSoC project idea Add New License Submittal Feature to Online Tool is quite popular with students – at least 4 proposals are in progress for this one project. Since we can only select one of the proposals, I would like to add another project idea of similar scope and usefulness to the community as an alternative project for students. The deadline for submittals is coming up quickly – next Tuesday 27^th! One concern I have with the proposal is there is some overlap in code functionality with the existing license submittal project idea. I personally think it would be fine to have this overlap and allow some duplication of code for the two projects. Once the projects are complete, we could have a separate task to refactor and reduce the duplication. Action requested: For the legal team – please review the proposal below and reply if you feel this tool proposal would be useful by end of day Friday. For the technical team, please provide feedback if you feel this proposal has too much technical overlap with the existing proposals. Proposal: Add a License XML Editor The SPDX license list (see https://spdx.org/licenses/) is maintained by the SPDX legal team. The source for the license list is maintained in the SPDX license-list-XML github repository (https://github.com/spdx/license-list-XML). Making changes to the license requires manually editing an XML file which can be challenging for contributors not familiar with XML. An online program could be created which would take as input a license XML file uploaded from the client machine to the server. The editor would allow editing of all of the XML fields as well as the optional and alternate text properties. The editor would then save the changes and allow the updated file to be downloaded to the user’s client machine. An optional feature would be to allow the input to be an existing license in the repository and automatically create a pull request with the changes. Another optional feature would be to allow copy/paste of the license XML text into a text pane rather than uploading/downloading the file. This project could be implemented in Python in the existing online tools. Skills Needed · Development skills in the Python language · Knowledge of Git · Understanding of XML Available Mentors Gary O'Neall Rohit Lodha ------------------------------------------------- Gary O'Neall Principal Consultant Source Auditor Inc. Mobile: 408.805.0586 Email: gary@... _______________________________________________ Spdx-tech mailing list Spdx-tech@... https://lists.spdx.org/mailman/listinfo/spdx-tech -- krys Nuvadga Piar, Inc. _______________________________________________ Spdx-tech mailing list Spdx-tech@... https://lists.spdx.org/mailman/listinfo/spdx-tech
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