August SPDX General Meeting Minutes
https://wiki.spdx.org/view/General_Meeting/Minutes/2018-08-02
General Meeting/Minutes/2018-08-02
< General Meeting | Minutes
· Attendance: 12
· Lead by Phil Odence
· Minutes of July meeting approved
Contents
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· 1 Guest Presentation, - Supporting Continuous Integration, Ndip Tanyi
· 2 Tech Team Report - Kate/Gary
· 3 Legal Team Report - Jilayne/Paul
· 4 Outreach Team Report - Jack
Guest Presentation, - Supporting Continuous Integration, Ndip Tanyi[edit]
· Idea- Automatically generating SPDX docs as part of CI process
· Scope
· Focused on Travis CI, NPM and Python
· Demo
· Add an install and SPDX build script to build script
· And some statements to push the SPDX docs to the repo
· Future extensions
· Pushing to GItHub as a commit
· Other CI systems
· Has been designed generically enough to be extensible to other languages and environments
Tech Team Report - Kate/Gary[edit]
· Tooling
· Mostly GSoC work
· License XML Editor
· Gary posting new version today http://spdxtools.sourceauditor.com
· If you want to test, make it clear that these are tests, to make clear in the pull requests
· Spec work
· Working for consistency in external identifiers
· Interest coming up from security community
· SWID
· NTIA conference that featured SPDX
· Working in interop and SPDX standardization
· Looking at spinning up a security subgroup
· Interest from US House and Senate in a SW BoM and SPDX is on the docket
· NIST and other organizations are involved in the background
Legal Team Report - Jilayne/Paul[edit]
· 3.2 is out
· Some clean up of old issues in process
· Request to that legal folks try out Tushar’s tool
· Exceptions
· The term is imperfect as it handles some items that are not “exceptions” per se
· Patent grants, for example
· Considering changing the term to be more neutral and inclusive
· “Modifiers” maybe?
· Will send an email to a wide audience get people thinking about it and set up a special meeting
Outreach Team Report - Jack[edit]
· Website
· Making more sense of the License List and Documents section
· Shane Coughlin, from Open Chain, is getting involved
· Outreach to companies
· New time for Outreach calls is 7pm EDT
· (Shane is in Japan)
· OSS Summit
· Backoff on the Tuesday
· And a session on Consuming SPDX
Attendees[edit]
· Phil Odence, Black Duck/Synopsys
· Ndip Tanyi, Alberta University
· Tushar Mittal, GSoC Student
· Gary O’Neall, SourceAuditor
· Yash Nisar, GSoC Student
· Jack Manbeck, TI
· Steve Winslow, LF
· Jilayne Lovejoy, ARM
· Paul Madick, Dimension Data
· Mike Dolan, Linux Foundation
· Matije Suklje, Liferay
· Mark Atwood, Amazon