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Subject: DocBook Technical Committee Meeting Minutes: 21 March 2007
DocBook Technical Committee Meeting Minutes: 21 March 2007 ============================================================= The DocBook Technical Committee met on Wednesday, 28 June 2006 at 05:00p EDT (02:00p PDT, 21:00GMT, 22:00BST, 23:00CEST, 06:00JST+, 02:30a India+) for 70 minutes. Agenda 1. Roll call Present: Steve Cogorno, Paul Grosso, Scott Hudson, Gershon Joseph, Jirka Kosek, Bob Stayton, Norman Walsh Regrets: Patricia Gee, Larry Rowland Absent: Gary Cornelius, Dick Hamilton, Nancy Harrison 2. Accepted the minutes[1] of the previous meeting. 3. Next meeting: 18 April 2007 NOTE: DATE MOVED TO 25 April to avoid conflict with OASIS Symposium. 4. Review of the agenda. Order of agenda was changed. See 5a and 5b. 5. Review of open action items a. Norm to create a new DB5 candidate release with caption on cals table and informaltable, title and titleabbrev in qandaentry, expand HTML table caption content model to match titles, and allow empty glossary. COMPLETED b. Norm to write an RFC for registering a DocBook MIME type. COMPLETED c. Scott to create a test file of info in CALS table and try it with various XML editors. COMPLETED d. Scott to work on creating a subcommittee charter to submit to the TC. COMPLETED 5a. 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 1097183 Allow Task as a sibling of sections Postponed until after 5.0 release. 1588693 Allow ackno in book APPROVED addition of acknowledgements element at same level as dedication. ACTION: Norm to add to next 5.0CR. 1626321 Add a frame attribute to entrytbl element There was no consensus to change the CALS table model at this level. A workaround exists using tgroupstyle. REJECTED. 1641607 Add values for (table|informaltable)/@frame There was no consensus to change the CALS table model at this level. A workaround exists using tabstyle. REJECTED. 1644553 Add a label attribute to all elements with caption APPROVED adding label to table, the only formal element that was missing label. ACTION: Norm to add to next 5.0CR. 1664541 allow termdef in acronym Not approved. Other options available. 1666938 Add a description element to subject Not clear what the intention is here. Other elements may suffice. ACTION: Bob will ask the submittor for more information. 1673820 define an xlink:role for olinking APPROVED declaring a convention to recommend using role="http://docbook.org/xlink/role/olink" in olinks for universal linking in 5.0. No change to the schema. ACTION: Bob to write up description for The Definitive Guide. 1679665 Add better support for modular documentation Postponed. 1679712 Fix header comment in dbpoolx.mod (SGML) ACTION: Norm to discuss with submittor. 1679775 Fix termdef so that glossterm isn't ambiguous APPROVED changing the content model of termdef to require one firstterm element, which serves as the focus of the termdef. That would permit other glossterm elements not being defined. ACTION: Norm to add to next 5.0CR. 1682917 add pgwide to example APPROVED to add pgwide attribute to example so all formal objects have it. ACTION: Norm to add to next 5.0CR. 5b. DocBook 5 feature freeze The Committee wants to finish up 5.0. Any RFEs submitted after April 20 that are not bug fixes will not be considered for 5.0. 6. Registered MIME type for DocBook XML See Norm's proposal [2] No objection to Norm's draft text. ACTION: Norm to submit as an Internet Draft RFC, and will track it through the approval process. 7. info in html tables (continued from last meeting) Scott tested it in various editors without problems. APPROVED adding info to the HTML table element in 5.0 ACTION: Norm to add to next 5.0CR. 8. Extend charter to include commercial publishing (continued from last meeting). See Scott's proposed charter [3] APPROVED Scott's proposed charter for a subcommittee on commercial publishing. ACTION: Norm to follow up with OASIS on the procedure for doing a TC Subcommittee. ---------------------------------------------------- Meeting adjourned at 6:10 EDT. ----- [1] http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/docbook-tc/200703/msg00004.html [2] http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/docbook-tc/200703/msg00005.html [3] http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/docbook-tc/200703/msg00002.html Bob Stayton Sagehill Enterprises DocBook Consulting bobs@sagehill.net
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