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Subject: Re: [docbook-tc] DocBook Charter
To the list of users, please add Mandrakelinux. Norman Walsh <ndw@nwalsh.com> writes: > I reviewed Karl's notes on the last draft on which he commented and > the last charter that we reviewed and made a couple of very small > changes. (In fact, all I added was a sentence to the first paragraph > of the statement of purpose.) > > I propose that we adopt the following charter today and forward it to > OASIS again for approval. > > > Name > > The name of this Technical Committee is the "OASIS DocBook Technical > Committee". > > Statement of Purpose > > Almost all computer hardware and software developed around the world > needs some documentation. For the most part, this documentation has a > similar structure and a large core of common idioms. The community > benefits from having a standard, open, interchangeable vocabulary in > which to write this documentation. DocBook has been, and will continue > to be, designed to satisfy this requirement. For more than a decade, > DocBook has provided a structured markup vocabulary for just this > purpose. > > DocBook is now widely used in both commercial and Open Source > environments including Debian, Fedora, FreeBSD, GNOME, > Hewlett-Packard, IBM Linux Technology Center, KDE, Linux Documentation > Project, PHP, Red Hat, SUSE, Subversion, and Sun Microsystems, to > name just a few. > > The DocBook Technical Committee is chartered to develop and maintain > the DocBook family of specifications and to continue to support its > ever growing user base. In particular, the XML and SGML DocBook > schemas, a suite of extension modules, and a simplified authoring > subset of DocBook. The Technical Committee plans to support a variety > of schema languages and may develop additional modules and derived > document types. > > Scope of Work > > The TC is engaged in evolving the suite of DocBook specifications. The > scope of DocBook is computer hardware and software documentation. > Broadly, this includes both print and online tutorial and reference > documentation as well as online help, user guides, exercises and other > ancillary forms of documentation. > > This effort will deliver on the following goals: > > * Evolve DocBook beyond DTDs into modern schema languages. > > * Address issues and enhancement requests that have arisen from > experience with real-world DocBook implementations. > > * Add support for features that were deferred from previous > versions of DocBook. > > Most requests for enhancement that are not motivated by a requirement > in computer hardware or software documentation are considered out of > scope. It is not a goal of the Technical Committee to expand the scope > of DocBook to include additional, unrelated problem domains. > > List of Deliverables > > The TC expects to update the DocBook family of specifications to > reflect issues and enhancements adopted by the TC. Our current > timeline for this evolution is: > > Q4 2004 > > * The DocBook SGML Document Type, V4.4 > * The DocBook XML Document Type, V4.4 > * Simplified DocBook, V1.1 > > Q1 2005 > > * The DocBook EBNF Module, V1.3 > * The DocBook HTML Forms Module, V1.3 > * The DocBook MathML Module, V1.3 > * The DocBook SVG Module, V1.3 > > The TC is also engaged in an exploration of DocBook V5.0, a complete > reimplementation of DocBook in RELAX NG. This work is expected to > produce specifications that update, augment, or replace all of the > above. The TC expects to enter public beta testing sometime in 2005. > > Additional documents may also be produced at the Committee's > discretion. The TC's intent is to pursue OASIS Standard status for > major DocBook revisions. > > Audience > > The primary audience for the final output of this TC is structured > documentation system architects, implementers, authors, and users. > > Language of the TC > > All business of the TC will be conducted in English. > > > > > Be seeing you, > norm >
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