A new function to make the dependency management of a project more flexible

[shi9qiu]

Description

In practice, we face the problem that for a component with the same version, the version of its dependency may be different. We try to solve this problem by proposing a new function to make the dependency management of a project more flexible.

A New Dependency Management Function for SW360.pdf

[shi9qiu]

The branch of this function:
https://github.com/toshiba/sw360/tree/dev/project-and-release-dependency-management-function
It has been possible to check the demo.

[shi9qiu]

To reduce the impact on the existed functions, we plan to implement our ideas in a new tag firstly. This new tag will not affect any existed functions. Also, we will try to connect them in the future.

[shi9qiu]

Plan for the future pull requests:
1st PR: Table view (Mid-June completed)
2nd PR: RestAPI function, cooperation with "IS USED BY" on the Component page (Early July)
3rd PR: Cooperation with ECC function, Import/Export function (Mid-July)
4th PR: Linkage with License Clearing tag and Clearing Request function) (Early August)
5th PR: Collaboration with SPDX function (Mid-August)
6th PR: Cooperation with Additional Data and Log function (Late August)
7th PR: Tree view (Mid-September)

[tienlee]

I would like to share the slides which I used in today's meeting.
SW360-20221102 - Demo1538.pptx

[ag4ums]

Hi, our findings for todays meeting
Dependency management of a project-findings.pdf

[tienlee]

Thank you very much @ag4ums

I would like to share the slides which were used by Qiu in today's meeting.

In addition, please checkout the latest code in the dependency-network-management branch (https://github.com/toshiba/sw360/tree/release/dependency-network-management) to trial this function.
A New Dependency Management Function for SW360_qiu.pptx