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Quartermaster Sprint 4.3 Development Report: Documentation, documentation, documentation

The QMSTR sprints 4.2 and 4.3 (this report covers both) are part of our current efforts to merge the ongoing QMSTR development and the FASTEN project. A key necessity for this was documentation. Everybody loves to write documentation, especially developers. Right? :-) To make it even more fun, we work on integrating end user and administrator documentation with the project source code and perform automated integration test automatically. We hope that this approach leads to documentation that works and is reliable. Even though this effort is still ongoing, some results are already visible. One of them is the project documentation on the main web site. Some feature development primarily on the node management command line interface is also in progress. It should be finished in time for the QMSTR 0.4 release, planned for April 17.

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Quartermaster Sprint 4.1 Development Report: Go, Java and Python integration libraries

The key goal of QMSTR milestone 4 is to stabilize the APIs and streamline the documentation and tutorials to prepare the integration with the development work that takes part in the FASTEN project and in ACT. To prepare for that, sprint 4.1 focused on refactoring the integration libraries for Go, Java and Python that developers use to create QMSTR modules and client side tools. These libraries help users to create diverse sets of modules and client side code to fit their needs, and facilitate the integration with various services like CI/CD environments.

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Quartermaster Milestone 3 Development Report: C++, Linux, CCache

Version 0.3 of Quartermaster was tagged on February 1, 2019. It includes improvements to allow for example the Linux kernel, glibc and openssl as projects under analysis. It delivers support for snapshots of the knowledge graph, which allows rolling back changes to a known state, as well as support for source code in assembly language. It improves the support for ccache, ar, ld and objcopy, and for analyzing source code elements that are generated during the build and are not part of the original source code package. Quartermaster is Free and Open Source software and developed under a collaborative open governance model. As usual, the source code is available on Github. Read more for all the details on the new release.

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Quartermaster Milestone 2 Development Report: Python client modules, SPDX, more automation

After another quarter of intense software development, we are proud to announce the availability of Quartermaster v0.2. Quartermaster is a toolchain that automates the analysis and documentation of Open Source license compliance. Software vendors - businesses as well as Open Source communities - deploy Quartermaster in their build pipelines to create compliance documentation while software package share being created. With the new version, Quartermaster learns to ingest SPDX formatted source code manifests, adds a client library for developing analyzer or reporter modules in the Python programming language, adds support for running multiple build processes on the same hardware concurrently, and much more. Quartermaster is Free and Open Source software and developed under a collaborative open governance model. Get the source code from Github while it is hot! Read more for all the details on the new release.

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Quartermaster Milestone 1 Development Report: VoilĂ , a modular, extendable FOSS Compliance Toolchain

Version 0.1 is here. After a proof-of-concept, plenty of drafting, feedback and discussions, a prototype, and finally three months of development focused on creating a useful product, we are tagging a first version of Quartermaster. The theme of the first version was to implement the toolchain basics: the compliance knowledge graph, the master container, the elemental workflow with a construction, analysis and reporting phase, and the APIs for modules to interact with the knowledge graph in each of these phases. There are public showcases that demonstrate the functionality implemented so far. After gathering functional and legal requirements, the team will now move on to milestone 2, where we will focus on making use of the building blocks from the first version to implement badly needed functions of generating license compliance documentation - an SPDX manifest analyzer, integration with Fossology, and features to aggregate analysis results from different sources into reports.

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