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Subject: DocBook Technical Committee Meeting Minutes: 17 September 2008
DocBook Technical Committee Meeting Minute: 17 September 2008 ============================================================= The DocBook Technical Committee met on Wednesday, 17 September 2008 at 01:00p EDT (10:00a PDT, 17:00GMT, 18:00BST, 19:00CEST, 02:00JST+, 022:30p India+) for 40 minutes. 1. Roll call Present: Jim Earley, Paul Grosso, Scott Hudson, Dick Hamilton, Gershon Joseph, Jirka Kosek, Larry Rowland, Bob Stayton. Absent: Gary Cornelius, Keith Falhgren, Patricia Gee, John Hanratty, Dave Pawson, John Pederson Regrets: Corey Leong, Norman Walsh 2. Accepted the minutes with corrections [1] of the previous meeting. 3. Next meeting: 15 October 2008 Regrets from Gershon Joseph. 4. Review of the agenda. No new items. 5. Review of open action items a. Bob to organize TDG reading after names are fixed. CONTINUE b. Dick and Jim to investigate using a map for modular DocBook. COMPLETED (almost) ACTION: Bob to add to next month's agenda. c. Norm to write up a backwards compatibility policy document. CONTINUE d. Gershon to communicate with JoAnne Hackos regarding adoption committee. CONTINUE e. Norm to incorporate group parameter change (RFE 1998852) into the schema for 5.1. CONTINUE f. Norm to ask mailing list about 'rep' on methodparam. CONTINUE 6. DocBook TC charter review. Norm needs to be present for this discussion, so it is postponed to next month. 7. DocBook 5.0 standards update We received a third usage statement of DocBook 5, so Norm can proceed with making it an OASIS standard. ACTION: Bob to follow up with Norm regarding submittal to OASIS. There was discussion about the lack of support in tools for RelaxNG with Schematron rules, despite them both being international standards. Since DocBook 5's official OASIS standard will use such a schema, there was concern that this will hinder deployment. Some workarounds were suggested: - using the DTD and adhering to authoring style rules. - validating documents outside the editor. - using XML Schema and ACL rules in Arbortext. One question that came up was what features would be lost if RelaxNG were supported but not Schematron rules. ACTION: Jirka to analyze RelaxNG without Schematron. 8. Policy for backwards compatible changes. Postponed until Norm submits the policy document. 9. Publishing Subcommittee report. Scott reported that the subcommittee did not achieve quorum at its last meeting, so the spec is not approved for submittal to the TC yet. 10. DocBook Adoption Committee proposal. Gershon would like to talk to JoAnn Hackos before continuing this discussion. Dick suggested that a paper for the XML-in-Practice 2008 conference could be submitted. 11. 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 1722935 DocBook 5: Adding proofreader in @class for othercredit? 1770787 Rename firstname and surname 1907003 biblioid content model too broad RFEs to be considered 2021383 Is 'rep' on methodparam a mistake? Postponed until Norm attends. 2067915 add floatstyle attribute to sidebar The lack of floatstyle was seen as an oversight. APPROVED. 2100736 initializer should allow constants ACTION: Larry to investigate this RFE. ----- [1] http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/docbook-tc/200808/msg00014.html Bob Stayton Sagehill Enterprises bobs@sagehill.net
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