Week 6

(July 03, 2025 - July 09, 2025)

Meeting

(July 9, 2025)

Note: I was unable to attend this week’s meeting due to a medical emergency that required hospitalization.

Identified and fixed the comment extraction bug in Nirjas that was causing list index out of range on scanning some php files.
Reason: The readMultilineDiff function assumes that every occurrence of the [startSyntax] and [endSyntax] in the file will form a valid pair. However, in the provided PHP file, there might be mismatched or incomplete pairs of startSyntax (/) and endSyntax (/), which causes the IndexError when trying to calculate the difference between [startLine] and [endLine].
The reason the endLine and startLine length's don't match is because "It is treating the "*/" symbol in the code as a end of a comment."
PR Raised: fossology/Nirjas#63

Took into account the review suggestions by Shaheem and applied the following refinements:
- Refactored internal logic for clarity and maintainability.
- Enhanced regex pattern matching to reduce false positives and improve precision.
- Reduced dependency on bloated keyword sets by using smarter patterns.

Updated Patterns Sample:

\bException\b
-[0-9]+\.[0-9]+
-only-or-later
Version\s[0-9]+\.[0-9]+
Version-[0-9]+\.[0-9]+
\bSPDX-License-Identifier\b