OpenDocument TC coordination call minutes 2008-07-14

[robert_weir@us.ibm.com]

OpenDocument TC coordination
call  minutes 2008-07-14
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*Begin 10:04 EDT

* Rollcall

Robert Weir, IBM (presiding)
Jun Ma, Beijing Redflag Chinese
2000 Software
David Wheeler, Institute for
Defense Analyses
Doug Mahugh, Microsoft
Ming Fei, IBM
Michael Brauer, Sun Microsystems
Oliver-Rainer Wittmann, Sun
Microsystems
Patrick Durusau, Individual
Ma Yue, IBM
Florian Reuter, Novell
Kohei Yoshida, Novell
Bob Jolliffe, South Africa
Department of Science and Technology

- 10 of 13 voting members
were in attendance, so quorum requirements were met.

* Minutes of 7/14 call were
approved (http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/office/200807/msg00121.html)

* Rob explained how the Chairs
would like to handle agenda items going forward:

- New agenda items should
be proposed to the mailing list by end of day each Wednesday for the following
Monday's agenda.
- The Chairs will try to get
out the formal agenda by end of day each Thursday
- for formal ODF proposals,
for discussion or voting, TC members should follow the process outlined
on the wiki: http://wiki.oasis-open.org/office/How_to_propose_a_change_or_addition_to_ODF
- The Chairs will try to get
draft meeting minutes by end of day Tuesday, following each Monday call.

- Overall theme is that TC
members are responsible for advancing their own proposals at their own
pace by notifying the list when they want the proposal discussed or voted
upon.

* Patrick reported on the
ODF 1.0 Errata status.  

- Patrick has compared ODF
1.0 and ODF 1.1 and noted that there were a small number of section numbering
differences.  So it should be possible in the future to apply ODF
1.0 errata to ODF 1.1 if we decide to do that.
- Task now is to ensure that
the document has section/page/line references for both OASIS ODF 1.0 as
well as ISO/IEC 26300:2006

* Florian lead discussion
on his fieldmarks proposal (http://wiki.oasis-open.org/office/Fieldmarks)

- It was observed (Bob/Rob)
that the various region marking mechanism in ODF (bookmarks, fieldmarks,
etc.) have substantial commonality that might be factored into a generic
mechanism.  For example, a generic Region-Mark element  with
a category or type attribute that indicates the behavior.  Other users
of similar region marks could be re-written to use this generic facility
and then the old versions deprecated.

- (Oliver) but this would
be a substantial change for ODF 1.2, especially this late.  (Florian)
who will help do this work?

- (Rob) The Fieldmarks proposals
appears to be close to generic already.  It is expressing structure
but does not define behavior.  Perhaps we simply make this generic
but defer the work to convert the other mechanism to match it.  (Bob)
We would use this new generic mechanism "going forward"

* Florian and Kohei lead discussion
on spreadsheet table protections proposals (http://wiki.oasis-open.org/office/Spreadsheet_Table_Protection_Options)

- (Kohei) a number of additional
binary options are proposed to match that provided by Excel
- Noted the need for legacy
hash support for compatibility with Excel documents
- (Florian) possibility for
double-hashing when importing Excel documents, to give compatibility as
well as safety.  So re-hash the legacy hash with a modern hash like
SHA256 before saving it in ODF.  


*Adjourned 11:01