[office] OpenDocument TC coordination call draft minutes 2008-06-02

[Michael Brauer - Sun Germany - ham02 - Hamburg <Michael.Brauer@Sun.COM>]

* Rollcall
Jun Ma, Beijing Redflag Chinese 2000 Software Co., Ltd.
Warren Turkal, Google Inc.
Mingfei Jia, IBM
Yue Ma, IBM
Robert Weir, IBM
Patrick Durusau
David Wheeler, Institute for Defense Analyses
Florian Reuter, Novell
Bob Jolliffe, South Africa Dept. of Science & Technology
Michael Brauer, Sun Microsystems (presiding)
Eike Rathke, Sun Microsystems
Oliver-Rainer Wittmann, Sun Microsystems

Don Harbison, IBM (observing)


* 10/10 voting members present, so quorum requirements have been met.


* Minutes from 2008-06-09 coordination call:
http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/office/200806/msg00043.html

The attending TC members unanimously accepted the minutes.


* Action Items as listed at
http://www.oasis-open.org/apps/org/workgroup/office/members/action_items.php

Listed are only those items where an update is available.

#0030: Post definition of Excel's YEARFRAC calculation to TC list or
document library

Doug posted the definition to the list. David Wheeler noticed some
differences to Phyton code he has developed, that need to be analyzed.


* New Proposal Form

http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/office/200805/msg00122.html

Rob created a Wiki page template for the form. It can be chosen when a
new page is created.

It was discussed where the proposals may be tracked. It was suggested to
use categories. Michael wants to do some research for this. It was
further suggested to make more use of headings.


* Discussion of proposals

- Attribute default values

http://wiki.oasis-open.org/office/proposal%3Adefault-values

The proposal was discussed. No open issues seem to exist. The proposal
may be voted on in the next call.

- proposal for ODF 1.2: extension of vertical relation values for
certain anchor types

http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/office/200806/msg00001.html

It was discussed how the proposal effects backward compatibility. The
proposal adds a new feature to ODF. Applications that do not support ODF
1.2 will render documents differently than application that do support
the feature. Oliver wants to summarize this for the next meeting.  The 
proposal may then be voted on in the next call.

It was further discusses whether all proposals must follow the new
proposal form. The chairs clarified that the use of the new form is
recommended  but optional, because the TC so far has not agreed that the
new form is mandatory, and that an e-mail proposal may be appropriate
for "simple" proposals anyway.


The meeting was adjourned at 5pm CET	

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