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Contributing to the SPDX 3.0 Model

General

SPDX is always welcoming new contributors!

The discussions are happening on the spdx-tech mailing list and during our regular meetings.

All the details are in: https://spdx.dev/participate/tech/

This repository consists of Markdown files describing the model classes, datatypes, properties, and vocabularies which will be used to automatically create documentation, ontologies, and validation artifacts. These are organized by profile.

Please submit a pull request or an issue for any suggested changes or issues you find.

Significant changes between versions should be logged to CHANGELOG.md.

Contribution License Agreement

Contributions to this repository are made pursuant to the SPDX Community Specification Contributor License Agreement 1.0. You do not need to submit a signed copy of the contributor license agreement; by making a contribution to this repo, you agree to the terms set forth in that agreement.

Contributing to a specific profile

There are multiple profiles being developed in parallel for the SPDX 3.0 model.

  • During its initial phase of development, a profile working group will contribute changes to its own branch in this repository.
    • For example, any changes to the "Future Profile" should be submitted as a change request to the future-profile branch.
  • There will be at least one maintainer per profile in charge of merging any profile development changes to the profile-specific branch.
  • Once the first "complete" version of a profile is ready, the profile maintainer will alert the general SPDX tech group that the profile model is ready for review.
  • Once alerted, the SPDX tech group will review and provide feedback.
  • Once profile proposals have been reviewed and approved, the profile-specific branch will be merged to a general development branch along with the other reviewed profile models.
  • Once the profile in development branch is stable, its code from the development branch will be merged to main.

At this point the SPDX tech team will re-evaluate the best way to continue updating individual profiles.

This method of development was agreed upon by the SPDX Tech team on 2023-01-17.

Profile Maintainers

In accordance with the development model described above, each profile has at least one maintainer in charge of merging profile-specific changes to the profile working branch.

To contribute to a specific profile, please open a PR to the profile-specific branch or reach out to the maintainer of the profile (noted below).

Each profile in active development phase also has their own regular meeting time.

Profile Maintainer(s)
AI Karen Bennet and Gopi Krishnan Rajbahadur
Dataset Karen Bennet and Gopi Krishnan Rajbahadur
Build Brandon Lum and Nisha Kumar
Core William Bartholomew, Gary O'Neall, and Kate Stewart
Licensing Steve Winslow and Alexios Zavras
Security Thomas Steenbergen, Adolfo García Veytia, and Rose Judge
Software Alexios Zavras and Gary O'Neall