discuss supporting other reuse lint report output formats (exporters)

[kbroch-rivosinc]

Related to #672

Currently it looks like the report output is in markdown.

IMO it would be useful to provide other formats. Bandit has a comprehensive list.

Here's a subset I'd be interested in:

• xml (specifically junit test format)
  • why: for existing projects trying to get REUSE compliant may be a journey, this would facilitate eventual compliance by monitoring progress over time (ex: using in gitlab)
• html
  • why: then don't have to pipe existing md output into another tool to generate it

I realize xml format might have the same response as here: #655 (comment) but just wanted to pose the use case.

[carmenbianca]

See also #654 #183

XML (junit test) sounds interesting. I'm not sure we're going to take initiative on that, though. JSON has higher priority for us at the moment.

Thanks for the issue!

[kbroch-rivosinc]

Thanks for --json issue links (I missed those). I'll check back in after --json PR lands. I bet I can transform that output to my needs.

[mxmehl]

See #320 for the junit.xml request.

Could we close this issue as there are already issues/PRs for JSON and junit?

[kbroch-rivosinc]

Closing this issue is fine with me.