DocBook Technical Committee Meeting Agenda: 21 Jan 2004

["Bob Stayton" <bobs@sagehill.net>]

DocBook Technical Committee Meeting Agenda: 21 Jan 2004
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The DocBook Technical Committee will meet on Wednesday, 21 Jan 2004 at
05:00p EST (02:00p PST, 22:00GMT, 22:00BST, 23:00CEST, 07:00JST+,
03:30a India+) for 90 minutes.

The teleconference phone number is +1.865.524.6352. The participant
code is 7386368. Attendance at teleconferences is restricted to members
(and prospective members) of the committee.

Agenda

1. Roll call
2. Accepting the minutes[1] of the previous (November) meeting
     Note: there was no quorum for the December meeting.
3. Next meeting: 18 Feb 2004.
4. Review of the agenda (set aside more time for RFEs?)
5. Review of open action items

    a. Norm to follow-up on RFE 562343: <packagename> element
    b. Norm to write better documentation for option/optional
    c. Norm to describe how the prototype works and how it was constructed.
    d. Mike to provide a better proposal for choicelist markup.
    e. Mike to reconsider the annotation problem and post his thoughts.
    f  Norm to post his stylesheet that attempts to convert existing DocBook
       documents to the "V5" style markup.
    g. Dick to propose more general solution for caption in mediaobject.
    h. Steve to propose generalizing programlisting to the list.
    i. Bob to send out action item reminder mail.
        COMPLETED.
    j. Norm to produce simplified 4.3CR1 DTD.
        COMPLETED.


6. biblioref proposal [1]
   (formerly Improved citation support, RFE 810932).

7. DocBook V4.3 CR1

8. DocBook V5.0 (RELAX NG)

9. Reconsider the policy for backwards incompatible changes.

10.  Revisit addition of 'language' attribute
to programlisting and synopsis (use MIME?).
See [2] for the original RFE 798616.
See [3] for the minutes of the decision.
See [4] and [5] for further discussion about it.

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

      543064 JavaObject tag
      675024 form, script, applet support
      698026 cannot embed <superscript> within <guibutton>
      702185 add procedure as child of para
      711815 Tagging for subtler breaks or "pauses" within a chapter
      742373 Splitting Segmented List
      752632 Color control of CALS table element
      798616 syntax="" or notation="" needed for code listings
      828720 'spacing' attr. for 'variablelist'


     The following RFEs are awaiting action items

      413389 Enhance METHODNAME and VARNAME (Norm, generic linking)
      431411 RFE 70: add generic linking capability (Norm)
      522552 Add title attribute to <ulink> element (Mike, annotations)
      541444 caption in mediaobjectco (Dick)
      562343 <packagename> element (Norm)
      565637 Associate non-inline image with link (Norm, generic linking)
      574880 Add annotation element (Mike)
      613293 Generalize programlisting (Steve)
      623524 (Re)Consider "choicelist" markup (Mike)

     The following RFEs are identified as V6.0 or later

      531851 Remove inline person name elements
      532088 Remove RevHistory from qandaentry
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[1] http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/docbook-tc/200311/msg00014.html
[2]
http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=798616&group_id=21935&atid=384107
[3] http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/docbook/200309/msg00037.html
[4] http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/docbook/200401/msg00011.html
[5] http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/docbook/200401/msg00019.html

Bob Stayton
Sagehill Enterprises
bobs@sagehill.net