Hi mentors, I have uploaded a draft of my proposal on the GSoC website for review. I hope to hear from you soon concerning the necessary improvements I must make for it to be ready the final pdf submission.
Thanks Ndip Tanyi On Sun, Mar 26, 2017 at 8:29 PM, Ndip Tanyi <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > > Thanks Gary. I will do well to join the tech call on Tuesday. In the > meantime, I stubble on this https://github.com/ndip007/spdx-maven-plugin. > As you will notice, that is my fork of your own repos. > > I am currently looking through the code and thank goodness is clearing out > some of my worries. I think with the work you have already done with the > maven-plugin, we will just have to add a web-hook to Github and port the > other dependence from the exiting maven-plugin code. > > Please kindly let me know if I am missing out on some details > > Thanks > Ndip Tanyi > > On Sun, Mar 26, 2017 at 6:26 PM, <[email protected]> wrote: > >> 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 <(857)%20216-2871> >> >> Conference code: 38633 >> >> 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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