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Week 5

Coding Week 5 Meeting 1​

Date:2021-07-06

Attendees​

Week 4 Progress​

  • Created scancode_copyright and scancode_author table in the FOSSology database.
  • Copyright and author information coming from scancode scan result is inserted in these newly created tables.
  • Improved license data insertion in the license_file and highlight tables by inserting only unique entries based upon rf_fk, agent_fk, and pfile_fk. It solved UI glitch in license relevant text highlighting for scancode.
  • Latest commit having code to create tables.
  • Created UI Wireframes with Figma for ScanCode copyright and author.

Discussions​

  • The first idea is to have a separate browser for ScanCode agent link.

    • Michael suggested not to use these as ScanCode-Toolkit project is recognized mainly for it's license scanning now keeping only Copyright and Author information in this section whereas licenses in another section will be confusing for users.
    • Gaurav also didn't approve this idea.

  • The second idea is to reuse existing Copyright and Email/URL/Author browser link.

    • Reusing copyright and Email/URL/Author browser section seems to be nice idea.
    • Michael didn't find navigation between ScanCode agent and FOSSology Copyright agent using drop-down a good options. It seems to be lost. So instead of drop-down using tabs would looks nice.
    • No need to repeat users finding for ScanCode agent as user is not interested in providing decision for a particular agent but instead they do for a file.

  • Michael proposed following idea instead

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    • It reuses Copyright and Author browser space.
    • There is no redundant user decision for copyright agent.
    • Looks nice to all the attendees.

  • Discussion regarding how to display scanner findings in the Copyright/Email/Url/Author clearing section for a file.

    • Michael, Avinal and Sarita disused to add a column named source in the scanner finding table like license table in the clearing section.
    • Under this source column two keyword could be use one S for ScanCode findings and F for FOSSology Copyright agent findings.
    • Gaurav suggested not to use this idea because for the same copyright statement, Fossology and ScanCode can have different scan result.
    • In case of license, there is License_ref table which provides same license name for all the different agents for a license do no mismatching is there.
    • Doing same for Copyright will require lot of time.

  • Gaurav Suggested two ideas for the same

    • There can be two tabs to switch between ScanCode Findings and FOSSology Copyright Findings.
    • Second idea is to ask user about a default agent out of FOSSology copyright and ScanCode for an upload and display copyright/email/url/author result by the default agent.

  • Gaurav would like to discuss further in the next meeting.

Conclusion and Further Plans​

  • Implement Micheal's proposed idea for copyright browser and Email/URL/Author Browser.
  • Take feedback from other mentors too.

Coding Week 5 Meeting 2​

Date:2021-07-09

Attendees​

Discussions​

  • Copyright UI could be modified to integrate Scancode_Copyright and Scancode_Author UI.
  • CopyrightDao could be modified to include scancode copyright and author data too, no need to create a separate file for scancodeDao.
  • Users Findings are independent of any agent so no agentID has to be update in the copyright UI code for scancode but we have to take care for the type.
  • Gaurav suggested to use different type for copyright statement from what is used by copyright agent. Scancode will be using scancode_statement for copyright type and statement is used by copyright agent.
  • Two new tables named scancode_copyright_event , and scancode_author_event are required to store Deactivated ScanCode findings statements and Deactivated Author statements respectively.
  • To generate report copyright agent is hard coded at several places, figure out some way to add scancode data also.

Discussion regarding Documentation​

  • Gaurav gave this as a reference to add copyright in the project code files.
  • Michael suggested to look into coding guidelines for default license for the project code files.
  • Micheal suggested prepare a document for fossology wiki section like other agents have.
  • Gaurav in the last GSoC meeting suggested to document the working of scancode agent for first evaluation and adding comments to the code written till now.

Conclusion and Further Plans​

  • Documentation for scancode project in my project wiki .
  • Refactor code written till now.
  • Populating scancode copyright UI table.