This list is in priority order. (Owner of the task is listed in parenthesis, responsible for task breakdown and estimate). We don't have a schedule but are hoping to have this out by April. Without a schedule, this is just a guess and a hope. If you want to know why this takes as long as it does, just ask and have some time or money available to contribute.

1. (Mark) New heuristic based license analyzer (based on small phrases and phrases relative to other phrases). We are calling this analyzer nomos.
   1. Preliminary results show nomos to be 20x faster than bsam.
   2. Need a way to add licenses to nomos without recompiling
2. (Bob) Implement Buckets. This allows one to create categories used in license reports. For example, you could define categories like “good licenses”, “bad licenses”, “commercial licenses”, “files with no license”, … Buckets mockup
   1. Notes from 2/25 team meeting: 3-4 weeks (start date 2/26, est completion date 3/24)
      1. Finish cascading buckets - 1 day; code checked in 2/26
      2. Talk with Glen to understand env in the exec part of buckets - 1 day
      3. Do we use a simple rule engine or rewrite for FO? - 5-10 days?
      4. New UI for bucket browsing (http://fossology.org/~bobg/1.2reqs/buckets.html) with add'l file browsing - 2 days
      5. Modifications to include buckets in existing UI screen? (could Vincent do this task?) - 3 days (depends on if OSRB want modifications)
3. (Mary) Cleanup license naming in the new license_ref table.
   1. First pass makes a note of all the names that have to be changed in f1 and nomos.
   2. Second pass verifies that the nomos changes are acceptable to OSRB.
   3. Third pass is changing names in nomos and f1.
4. (Vincent) Package agents
   1. pkg meta data (add debian to complement or replace the existing spec file agent), identify packages, bin/src pkgs, and stated licenses
   2. package meta report
   3. browse by package
   4. package history
   5. Notes from 2/25 team meeting: 4 days (start date 2/26, est completion date 3/3)
      1. need to detect if dpkg is not installed. If so, disable the pkgagent.
      2. make sure it can't be run via command line or the UI. Print an informative message!
      3. test: run fossjobs
      4. test: try it on fedora installs, both with & without dpkg installed
5. (DONE)default agents per user (Mark) Done!
   1. Admin UI changes done. Testing & debugging - should be done by 2/19
6. (Mark) Create tests to validate buckets against nomos - 5 days (start date 2/26, est completion date 3/5)
   1. Test will compare file, license, bucket from g-nomos to the results of f-nomos (Mark will try the verbose switch and if that doesn't work he will talk with Paul W and/or Glen)
   2. need to verify the result at the package level
7. Reprioritized to post-1.3 (Bob) File tags
8. (DONE) Report files with no license. This should be part of standard license reports, not just in Buckets. A mockup of the new license browser UI is here
9. (Bob) Distro reports
10. (Bob) License Browser color coding
11. (Bob) Search within any part of a file tree
12. (Bob) Search for packages
13. (Bob, mark?) Browse packages
14. (Bob) Display license changes by package version
15. (Bob) Display license differences on a per file basis between versions of any archive (rpm, tar, etc)
16. (Bob/Adam) Report Copyrights, URL's, and email addresses mockup
    1. Notes from 2/25 team meeting: 3 days (start date 2/26, est completion date 3/3)
       1. NOTE: weather related power outage on 2/26 affected productivity.
       2. where did he put the training files? put them in $DATADIR
       3. locates copyright statements, URL's & email addresses but only copyright is currently reported in the UI
       4. data is currently being placed in copyright_test. Need to change the name.
       5. UI is complete; need to move from Adam's project directory to the main trunk
17. (DONE) (Vincent) Define, test & implement full backup & recovery process
18. (Mary) Test changes checked into subversion
    1. Notes from 2/25 team meeting:
       1. test all new FO1.2 features listed above
       2. need to run Adam's copyright code
       3. Creative Commons test files
19. (Mary) Address bugs targeted for this release.

This list is to keep track and summarize changes needed in the UI that are the results of changing to the nomos agent as our primary license agent for 1.2.

1. (Mark) agent_license_once_compare should be deprecated and replaced by a nomos version.
2. (Mark) in the browse menu/page the Schedule license analysis link should be changed to reschedule nomos not bsam.
3. (Bob) include a warning message in license groups page indicating it will be deprecated and replaced with buckets.

All the mockups can be found here. Or just click on the individual mockups below:

1. Attachments
2. Package browser
3. File Browser
4. Browsing a package
5. Buckets
6. Copyrights, URL's, and email addresses
7. List of files containing a license
8. License browser
9. Package License History
10. Browsing Distro packages
11. Package Info
12. Top Menu items
13. Viewing a license
14. License Browsing with license differences

1.2 Notes

1. Additional 1.2 Useful SQL
2. Scratchpaper for 1.2 tasks

1. (Bob) Add capability for reanalysis without breaking data persistence ie. do new analysis without removing previous analysis results. This can be used, to compare new and old analysis results, and to insure that report url's are persistent.
2. (Bob) New scheduler
3. Modular plugins and agents. Supports optional plugin installs.
4. Improved multihost configuration and installation
5. (Scott Lamons) Identify binaries and where they came from.
6. Modify code to support the db server on a separate system. (This has always been a design goal but, has not been implemented correctly OR tested.)
7. (Bob) File tags

This list captures “everything else” that we would like to work on but do not have scheduled, planned, or owned yet. This is the kitchen sink, as in “everything but the kitchen sink.”

High priority - within the next two releases

• (Mary/Bob) Improve postgres error checking and error reporting
• (Mark) improve reporting of UI test results.
• (Bob) Attachments mockup
• Deprecate (bSAM) license analyzer and licterms. They will still be available but not supported. To facilitate this, they could be separated into their own package.
• Split Pkgmetagetta into a separate optional package
• (Bob) New machine learning license analyzer (based on sentence clustering). Currently we are calling this F1. If there are results from both this analysis and fo_nomos, the results will be combined for reporting.
• REST API - follow thread started by Phil Martin
• Integrate DistroDB (distro package reports)
• Add/Modify licenses on-the-fly
• Binary analysis for open source discovery
• Document FOSSology recommended hardware configs
• Add load testing to automated test suite
• Implement automated nightly builds - should also include performance regression tests.
• Upload from version control system (CVS, SVN, PVCS) - From George Pace
• Write dependency analysis agent - note, being worked on at U of Victoria now
• Vulnerability tracking - note, being worked on by U of Victoria now

Low priority - could wait for 2-3 releases (or more)

• Share data between multiple repositories
• Get distros interested in using fossology to scan their codebase This is already happening with FreeBSD
• Generate meaningful URLs
• Integrate fossology data with other open source data providers
• Provide analysis to OSI License Proliferation sub-group
• Code clone detection
• Write kernel taint detector agent
• Define project release criteria
• Define project coding standards
• Improve text search Requires postgres >= 8.3
• Archived Reports - simple text file dump, PDF reports, eventually full web archive of all analysis reports
• group authentication - don't have an owner/customer to support this
• Write tar agent - re-tar arbitrary parts of repo - don't have an owner/customer to support
• Add pie/bar charts to license analysis - fun to have, pretty pictures, not that useful
• Change scheduler to assign resources to hosts and agents (rather than specifying number of agents per host)
• Change scheduler to manage jobs by resource rather than jobs by jobqueue item
• write agent to reconfigure & rebalance the repo
• Stop running filter_clean
• Automated Collection and Presentation of FOSS Notices

• See Archive for a list of completed tasks