Minutes 1/31/2012
Attendees:
- Gary O’Neall
- Bill Schineller
- Kirsten Newcomer
- Ed Warnicke
- Steve Cropper
- Rana Rahal
- Jack Manbeck
- Peter Williams
Agenda:
- · Discussion on SPDX package definitions
- · Discuss proposal for hierarchical supply chain (bug 818)
Package definitions:
- Start with Wiki’s definitions
- Kate proposed any collection of files
- Jack’s proposal – unit of delivery of software files
- What is a “unit” of delivery, over time one unit of delivery may not be a unit of delivery later in the supply chain
- Discussion on package/subpackage supply chain model [manufacturing analogy]
- Different between unit of consumption vs. unit of delivery
- The current RDF Package definition could be used
- Discussion on if a single file could be both a package and not a package
- Agreed on the usefulness of a definition “{} represent a collection of one or more files that are delivered as a unit" vs "A package represents a collection of software files that are delivered as a single functional component" from http://spdx.org/system/files/spdx-rdf-terms_27.html#Package
- The “{}” term will be replaced with an agreed upon term (TBD)
- Follow-up on possibly further defining “delivered as a unit”