It is my goal to have all repos. use the same scanCode (.py, .cfg, and sample headers), but since this utility and its dependent files are under the incubator-openwhisk repo. it makes it rather hard for other projects to run it as part of Travis as it requires a clone of incubator-openwhisk just to get at a handful of files (overkill).
In addition, it seems that there may other "utilities" (e.g., log, debug, etc.) that we wish to share across all repos. and they need a place to "live" outside the core openwhisk repository. Given these issues and goals, I would like to propose the creation of an "incubator-openwhisk-utilities" repo. (open to other names, but this seems accurate and generic enough for other similar tools) where we can move scanCode to and also be a home for "lightweight" utilities that are not as cumbersome to clone when needed. Any thoughts on this; would like to proceed on this with INFRA to move on this proposal soon if no one objects. Kind regards, Matt
