Re: SPX Change proposal

[Vít Ondruch <vondruch@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Dne 10. 05. 22 v 16:56 Jilayne Lovejoy napsal(a):
> On 5/10/22 1:56 AM, Vít Ondruch wrote:
> > Dne 10. 05. 22 v 9:06 Miroslav Suchý napsal(a):
> > > I took the initiative and drafted
> > >
> > > https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/SPDX_Licenses_Phase_1
> >
> >
> > Nice! Thx.
> >
> >
> > > I did **not** set it as ready for wrangler yet. I welcome comments. 
> > > And feel free to edit it directly. Especially these who I put there 
> > > as proposal owners.
> at the risk of sounding naive or clueless - what does "ready for 
> wrangler" mean?
> > > I would love to track all remaining work in the Scope section, so we 
> > > know what needs to be done and who is responsible. I am sure I 
> > > missed something there. Feel free to add it.
> >
> >
> > I am honestly not sure about:
> >
> > > There will be Phase 2, where we identify the remaining packages and 
> > help them to migrate to the SPDX formula.
> >
> >
> > 1) I think it will be risky to do this via automation.
> only some of the ids could be done via automation in any case. many 
> will need a closer inspection
> > 2) I don't think we will ever have the man power to do this.
> I agree that some additional help or tooling process or hackfest or 
> ... ??? would be good. need more brainstorming on this.
> > 3) I don't think this should happen any time soon.
> but we also don't want a period of using a mix of Fedora ids and SPDX 
> ids in Fedora to linger on for a long time as that would sort of 
> defeat the purpose of making the change. hence some planning around 1 
> and 2 would help perhaps


Well, yes, that is good point. Still not sure.

Actually, @Mirek shouldn't the Phase 2 be "SPDX is mandatory for new 
packages from certain point in time" instead followed by Phase 3 with 
complete migration to SPDX?


Vít

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