Hi Ndip,

 

Feel free to email the distribution list on any specific questions you have.

 

You can also join our tech call which is at 8AM Pacific time on Tuesday:

 

Dial-in number: +1-857-216-2871

Conference code: 38633

 <http://uberconference.com/SPDXTeam> http://uberconference.com/SPDXTeam  pin # 
38633

 

We can also setup some time to discuss via chat or uberconference it he above 
time doesn’t work.

 

Gary

 

From: Ndip Tanyi [mailto:[email protected]] 
Sent: Sunday, March 26, 2017 5:33 AM
To: Gary O'Neall
Cc: [email protected]; [email protected]
Subject: Re: Google Summer of Code 2017

 

Hi Gary,

Thank you for detailing out the expectations and deliverables of this project. 
I have looked most of the resources links provided on the project ideas page. 
As you pointed out, I still like to get more infos and ideas to enable with 
drafting my proposal.

Thanks

Ndip Tanyi

 

On Sat, Mar 25, 2017 at 6:43 PM, <[email protected]> wrote:

Hi Ndip,

 

I’m happy to hear of your interest on the Git plugins project.  I think this is 
one of the more interesting projects on the list.

 

One of the challenges in this project is how to obtain good license information 
from a general github account, so I would suggest an incremental approach where 
we can introduce more sophisticated licensing parsing information once the 
basic framework is in place.

 

One of the first steps would be to setup the basic framework for a git plugin 
that could be invoked for producing the SPDX documents – perhaps just producing 
a dummy file to demonstrate we had the basic git hooks working.

 

Another step would be to produce a valid SPDX document based on the files in 
github.  This could be accomplished using one of the libraries in 
github.com/spdx.  The first SPDX document could be just for the package without 
file information by setting the analyzed files flag to false.  To get started, 
we could set the license information to “UNKNOWN”.

 

We could then start refining the license information based on the license files 
present in github.  This would require some parsing, but there have already 
been some work done in this area in the NPM project.  Github has also been 
including more SPDX specific information which could be leveraged.

 

Once we get the package level working, we could work in the file level 
information – this would involve looking for license information in the file.  
We could also start out by setting the license to UNKNOWN then refining the 
license information with better parsing.

 

Let me know if you would like more info/ideas.

 

Gary

 

From: Ndip Tanyi [mailto:[email protected]] 
Sent: Friday, March 24, 2017 5:58 PM
To: [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]
Subject: Google Summer of Code 2017

 

Hi Mentors,

I am a first year Engineering student from the university of Alberta, Canada. I 
will like to contribute with SPDX during this internship program.

I find the project on creating "GIT Plugin to generate SPDX" interesting and 
affordable looking at my skills level.

I will like to discuss this project more with the mentors, so I can be able to 
clearly spell out the various micro task in my milestones and timeline as I 
work on my proposal for thesame.

Hope to hear from you mentors soon

 

Thanks 

Ndip Tanyi

 

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