SPDX Nov General Meeting Minutes
https://wiki.spdx.org/view/General_Meeting/Minutes/2018-11-01
General Meeting/Minutes/2018-11-01
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· Attendance: 6
· Lead by Phil Odence
· Minutes of Oct meeting approved
Contents
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· 1 Tech Team Report - Kate/Gary
· 2 Legal Team Report - Jilayne
· 3 Outreach Team Report - All
Tech Team Report - Kate/Gary[edit]
· Spec
· Ceva discussions
· Looking at fields that we might incorporate
· Security
· Evidence
· Idea is to bring in as a separate section
· Good Progress
· Some discussions with NTIA Group as well
· SWID
· May start using the security mailing list soon
· Tooling
· Multiple formats
· Challenges solves
· XML, JSON, YAML, Tag value, RDF
· Attention back to updating tooling with spec
· Some concern about file sizes with certain packages/formats
· May simply be an issue of LOTS of files
· Generating License List
· Didn’t work perfectly
· Giving another run
· Updating tooling for license submittal/editing
· A few bugs need to be worked around
Legal Team Report - Jilayne[edit]
· There’s a fair backlog of issues to work through
· Ongoing process
· 3.1 Is out
· Started new practice of release notes
· Tooling and new request system has to be nailed down
· People are going through multiple paths/processes
· Need to standardize
· Tooling is close
· Need a few more text fields
· All submissions seem to come from Gary
· License inclusion guidelines
· Inbound request regarding open hardware languages
· Already included open data license
· May need to revisit inclusion guidelines
· OSI discussion about naming issues with SPDX
· Need to find opportunity for better collaboration
Outreach Team Report - All[edit]
· Seems to be a lot more use of SPDX in the wild than we are aware of
· How do we run down and catalog?
· Wonder if it’s time for another poll
· Last poll results: https://spdx.org/sites/cpstandard/files/pages/files/spdx_survey_results_may_2013.zip
Attendees[edit]
· Phil Odence, Black Duck/Synopsys
· Kate Stewart, Linux Foundation
· Gary O’Neall, SourceAuditor
· Andrew Katz, Orcro
· Jilayne Lovejoy
· Steve Winslow, LF