A FOSSA Project is created on the first submission to FOSSA via the CLI Command fossa analyze. If no .fossa.yml file is present (not recommended) in the directory that fossa analyze was run then the FOSSA CLI will attempt to auto-detect all of the necessary fields for submitting the Project Dependencies to FOSSA for analysis. It is not recommended to use this approach since the FOSSA CLI will not generate a pretty/readable name for the Project and it is not guaranteed to detect all of the Prjoect Dependencies. Instead it is recommended that teams follow the instructions below to create a .fossa.yml configuration file which is appropriate for their Project.
The FOSSA CLI now provides a more sophisticated mechanism for detecting a project's dependencies and package managers. It is possible that a .fossa.yml configuration file is not required for your project. Please run fossa analyze --output on a local build and check if the unconfigured CLI provides sufficient coverage on your project, if not then read below regarding producing a .fossa.yml configuration file.
The FOSSA CLI no longer provides functionality to automatically generate the .fossa.yml file. Instead this file must now be created by hand with the appropriate fields for the Project. Documentation for the configuration file structure and fields can be found here : https://github.com/fossas/fossa-cli/blob/master/docs/references/files/fossa-yml.md.
version: 3
project:
name: <Human Readable Project Name>