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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