Thanks again to Lei from Fujitsu for an interesting presentation!
General Meeting/Minutes/2016-11-03 < General Meeting<http://wiki.spdx.org/view/General_Meeting> | Minutes<http://wiki.spdx.org/view/General_Meeting/Minutes> Jump to: navigation, search • Attendance: 12 • Lead by Phil Odence • Minutes of Sept meeting approved (Oct meeting was cancelled due to LinuxCon Europe) Contents [hide] 1 Special Guest - Lei Mao Hui, Fujitsu 2 Tech Team Report - Kate/Gary 3 Legal Team Report - Jilayne/Paul 4 Outreach Team Report - Jack 5 Cross Functional Topics - Phil 6 Attendees Special Guest - Lei Mao Hui, Fujitsu[edit<http://wiki.spdx.org/index.php?title=General_Meeting/Minutes/2016-11-03&action=edit§ion=1>] • Lei • Working for Fujitu • Developing on house Distro • Spoke at ALS and Linux Conference about experience with SPDXX • Reason Fujitsu needs SPDX • Want an SPDX file for all their packages • Customers ofter require license info • Released under GPL3, but includes software under other license as well. Many! • MIT, BSD, GPL2, etc. • SPDX is good for this purpose • So they added into production Development • Yocto SPDX • Lucky for them that Yocto supports SPDX • But the activity on Yocto SPDX has been slow • Found some issues when using • Only supports SPDX 1.1 • Doesn’t do a great job even with that • Is complex to use; takes a long time • May introduce license conflicts • In the end you can download the SPDX • Fujitsu’s contributions to Yocto SPDX • So they did some work to improve: • Created a patch to upgrade to SPDX 1.2 • Unfortunately was never accepted into Yocto • Would like to upgrade to SPDX 2.0 • And to improve performance • Has been working on some of the SPDX open source tools • including DoSocks developed by UNO • Lei has been continuing to submit improvements to Yocto • Improved performance • Currently discussing more improvements with Yocto • Will be continuing to improve and to upgrade to SPDX 2.1 • Question • Has yocto been receptive? • Yocto has not been active or focused on SPDX. • Some people have been interested • Not sure why they are not interested • Kate will help and follow up Tech Team Report - Kate/Gary[edit<http://wiki.spdx.org/index.php?title=General_Meeting/Minutes/2016-11-03&action=edit§ion=2>] • Spec • SPDX 2.1 is now released and official • Starting to focus on use cases and tooling • last call was a joint call with the Legal Team • Templetazation focus • Agreed on interfaces between teams • Tooling • Incorporated results from the bake off • Overall, everyone at the bake off got good feedback, leading to improvement of all tools • XML Format • Legal Team has been working on new format for license templates • Makes it easier for multiple contributors • Working now on making it consumable for external tools • Really good progress • Should have draft standards in the next month or two. Legal Team Report - Jilayne/Paul[edit<http://wiki.spdx.org/index.php?title=General_Meeting/Minutes/2016-11-03&action=edit§ion=3>] • Joint Call with Tech Team • Worked on syncing tag names to be consistent with spec • Went really well • License List • Business as usual with new licenses • More license requests for licenses in other languages • Probably need to have a discussion about how to handle consistently Outreach Team Report - Jack[edit<http://wiki.spdx.org/index.php?title=General_Meeting/Minutes/2016-11-03&action=edit§ion=4>] • Website • New site is up • Jack’s in process of posting new stuff • Next agenda • Working on new docs, templates, etc • Mostly to help explain aspects of how to use • Trying to assemble list of topics and then prioritize • Very open to ideas Cross Functional Topics - Phil[edit<http://wiki.spdx.org/index.php?title=General_Meeting/Minutes/2016-11-03&action=edit§ion=5>] • Future topic - Will be a discussion of license in different languages • Legal Team will come forward with a strawman. A few months out. • Guest stars • Always looking for more Attendees[edit<http://wiki.spdx.org/index.php?title=General_Meeting/Minutes/2016-11-03&action=edit§ion=6>] • Phil Odence, Black Duck • Lei Mao Hui, Fujitsu • Kate Stewart, Linux Foundation • Jilayne Lovejoy, ARM • Yev Bronshteyn, Black Duck • Scott Sterling, Palamida • Paul Madick, Dimension Data • Gary O’Neill, SourceAuditor • Tarek Jamal, ARM • Mark Gisi, Wind River • Jack Manbeck, TI • Alexios Zavras, Intel • NewPP limit report CPU time usage: 0.009 seconds Real time usage: 0.010 seconds Preprocessor visited node count: 23/1000000 Preprocessor generated node count: 28/1000000 Post‐expand include size: 0/2097152 bytes Template argument size: 0/2097152 bytes Highest expansion depth: 2/40 Expensive parser function count: 0/100 Saved in parser cache with key spdx_mwiki:pcache:idhash:1065-0!*!*!!en!*!* and timestamp 20161103153915 and revision id 4059
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