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Week 6 — Enhanced Reuser Flowchart & Design Decisions

Meeting​

Date: June 30, 2026
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Summary​

  1. Presented the flowchart for the Enhanced Reuser agent — the overall workflow is based on Nirjas comment extraction, followed by fuzzy comparison of extracted license texts between source and target files.
  2. Discussed Nirjas comment extraction performance for license detection, and the potential performance impact of fuzzy logic when processing large files (many lines of comments).
  3. Decided to shift focus to the file diff view part of the issue since Nirjas is still undergoing active changes — no point building on a moving target.

Progress​

  • Enhanced Reuser agent design: Started work on the overall architecture and design of the Enhanced Reuser agent. The agent takes files that were not identified by the standard Reuser or bulk scan, runs them through Nirjas for comment extraction, and then applies a fuzzy similarity match to decide whether clearing decisions can be inherited from the source upload.

  • Fuzzy logic threshold approach: Defined the fuzzy comparison strategy for license text matching. The extracted license comments from the source and target files are compared using a similarity score. If the score exceeds a configurable threshold, the clearing decision is applied. If it falls below, no decision is made (conservative fallback). This avoids false positives from lightly edited comment blocks.

  • File diff view preparation: With Nirjas still undergoing changes, work has started on the diff view component of the Reuse UI. This will display a side-by-side comparison of the source and target files' license comments, highlighting additions, removals, and modifications to help users verify decisions before applying them.