DocBook Technical Committee Meeting Agenda: 26 January 2005

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

DocBook Technical Committee Meeting Agenda: 26 January 2005
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The DocBook Technical Committee will meet on Wednesday, 26 January 2005 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 meeting.
3. Next meeting: 16 February 2005
4. Review of the agenda.
5. Review of open action items

   a. Bob to review minutes to ensure new features are tested.

   b. Norm to make a new CR release with Jirka's xml/docbook.cat patch.
      COMPETED.

   c. Mike to move the module tests into separate subdirectories,
      one for each module.

   d. Mike to move the template.xml file out of 'tests'

   e. Mike to move the test suite process so that it's a target
      in the tests/Makefile.

   f. Norm to write a concrete summary of the annotation proposal.

   g. Norm to post a summary of pointers to changes and the stuff
      I've written about DocBook V5.0.

   h. Norm to post to the list that 5.0 will probably not have SGML
      support.
      COMPLETED.

   i. Norm to think about how to extend corpauthor


7. Status of DTD version 4.4  [2]
   Add rowheader attribute.
   Add isrn class to biblioid in 4.4?

8. OASIS webpages status. 
   Latest 4.4 DTD not available, only 4.4CR2. [3]

9. Annotation proposal (Mike).  [4] [5]
    Continued from previous meeting.

12. Task markup as sibling to sections (Mike) [6] [7]

11. Discuss guidelines for accepting or rejecting requests. [8] [9]
    Continued from previous meeting. 

12. 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

      1084491 Add address, orgname, orgdiv to corpauthor, corpcredit, etc. 
      1095721 Allow text in inlineequation 
      1097183 Allow Task as a sibling of sections 
     
     The following RFEs are awaiting action items

      973446 Replace Footnote with Annotation 
      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)
      565637 Associate non-inline image with link (Norm, generic linking)
      574880 Add annotation element (Mike)
      623524 (Re)Consider "choicelist" markup (Mike)

     The following RFEs are identified as V5.0 or later

      974285 Check floatstyle/float attributes
      958393 remove default class value from productname 
      531851 Remove inline person name elements
      532088 Remove RevHistory from qandaentry
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[1] http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/docbook-tc/200412/msg00008.html
[2] http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/docbook/200412/msg00043.html
[3] http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/
[4] http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/docbook-tc/200406/msg00003.html
[5] http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/docbook-tc/200406/msg00005.html
[6] http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/docbook-tc/200501/msg00000.html
[7] http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/docbook-tc/200501/msg00002.html
[8] http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/docbook/200411/msg00043.html
[9] http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/docbook/200411/msg00046.html

Bob Stayton
Sagehill Enterprises
DocBook Consulting
bobs@sagehill.net