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Subject: DocBook Technical Committee Meeting Minutes: 26 September 2007
DocBook Technical Committee Meeting Minutes: 26 September 2007 ============================================================= The DocBook Technical Committee met on Wednesday, 26 September 2007 at 05:00p EDT (02:00p PDT, 21:00GMT, 22:00BST, 23:00CEST, 06:00JST+, 02:30a India+) for 40 minutes. Agenda 1. Roll call Present: Paul Grosso, Dick Hamilton, Scott Hudson, Jirka Kosek, Bob Stayton, Norman Walsh, Larry Rowland (observer). Absent: Steve Cogorno, Jim Earley, Keith Falhgren, Gershon Joseph, Dave Pawson 2. Accepted the minutes[1] of the previous meeting. 3. Next meeting: 7 November 2007 ************************************ MEETING DATES CHANGED: - There will be no meeting in October 2007. - The November meeting is moved to 7 November. - The December meeting is moved to 12 December. ************************************ 4. Review of the agenda. No additions. 5. Review of open action items a. Bob to organize TDG reading after names are fixed. CONTINUE. b. Scott to as Publishing Subcommittee about adding proofreader and other values in @class for othercredit. COMPLETED. c. Norm to propose content model changes to allow <uri> within <address>, <person>, <org>, etc. COMPLETED. d. Norm to fix required refsect2 and refsect3 in the DTD and XSD versions of 5.0. CONTINUE. e. Norm to investigate a July email reporting several problems with converting documents to DocBook 5.0. COMPLETED. 6. DocBook 5.0 Trying to decide when to go beyond Candidate Release for 5.0. Jirak pointed out that in April 2007 that we enacted a feature freeze for 5.0, so we should decide for each incoming item if it is a bug fix or a feature freeze. See the RFEs below for specifics. Norm will make final fixes, and we should be able to move to full recommendation at the early November meeting. 7. Subcommittee report. Scott reported that the subcommittee met 5 September and discussed proposals for modularizing 5.0 for easier customization. The periodicals class of documents is still under discussion. Also discussed extending othercredit attributes to other enumerated values. 8. Review of Requests for Enhancement To browse a specific RFE, enter the URL (on one line): http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&; group_id=21935&atid=384107&aid=XXXX These RFEs postponed until after 5.0 release 1097183 Allow Task as a sibling of sections 1679665 Add better support for modular documentation RFEs to be considered (as of 25 September): 1722935 DocBook 5: Adding proofreader in @class for othercredit? Decided this was a new feature, and will be put off until after 5.0 release. 1759782 Allow <uri> within <address>, <person>, <org>, etc. This will be added to the Candidate Release for 5.0. 1770787 Rename firstname and surname New feature, deferred. 1778566 allow <xref> and <linkend> in <type> New feature, deferred. 1784312 Bugs in DocBook V5 from Mauritz Jeanson a. fix personblurb and titleabbrev in biblioentry: APPROVED. ACTION: Norm to add to next CR. b. cmdsynopsis is not allowed in glossterm and methodsynopsis is not allowed in term: DENIED. Both elements are block elements, and should not be nested inside block elements. c. Content should not be required after info in book: APPROVED. ACTION: Norm to fix in next CR. d. tocdiv conversion problems. ACTION: Norm to investigate conversion script. 1795884 MathML not supported in inlineequation This is a bug since it is supported in equation. ACTION: Norm to fix in next CR. 1800916 keycap within userinput This is a bug since it was permitted in version 4. ACTION: Norm to fix in next CR. ----- [1] http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/docbook/200709/msg00004.html Bob Stayton Sagehill Enterprises DocBook Consulting bobs@sagehill.net
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