Week 5

(July 1, 2025 – July 7, 2025)

Meeting 5

(July 4, 2025)

Attendees

• Vaibhav Sahu
• Jan Altenberg
• Shaheem Azmal M MD
• Oliver Fendt

Discussions

• Reviewed both pull requests for the “Reuse of Clearing Decisions via OSSelot Reports” feature.
• Walked through edge-case test results and fixed minor regressions.
• Went over Jan’s final suggestions and agreed on merge readiness.
• Outlined next steps for scancode parallel-scanning implementation.
• Discussed about how we can use FOSSology REST API and FOSSology DUMP for reuse integration

Updates

• Feature testing & PR updates
  • Thoroughly tested the OSSelot-reuse feature across a range of edge cases with Jan’s help.
  • Implemented all identified fixes and enhancements.
  • Held a review meeting to walk through both PRs, incorporated Jan’s final suggestions, and raised the updated PR.
• Scancode parallel-scanning exploration
  • Began diving into Python’s multiprocessing module to design a parallel-scan architecture.
  • Drafted initial sketches of worker pool management and heartbeat integration.

Plan for Next Week

1. Prototype a multiprocessing worker pool in the ScanCode agent (runscanonfiles.py).
2. Integrate heartbeat and resource-limit checks into each worker process.
3. Benchmark single- vs. multi-process performance on sample upload sets.