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Subject: DocBook Technical Committee Meeting Minutes: 17 May 2006
/ "Bob Stayton" <bobs@sagehill.net> was heard to say: | DocBook Technical Committee Meeting Minutes: 17 May 2006 | ============================================================= The DocBook Technical Committee met on Wednesday, 17 May 2006 at 05:00p EDT (02:00p PDT, 21:00GMT, 22:00BST, 23:00CEST, 06:00JST+, 02:30a India+) for 90 minutes. | Agenda Scribe: Norm | 1. Roll call Present: Steven Cogorno Gary Cornelius Scott Hudson Larry Rowland Paul Grosso Richard Hamilton Nancy Harrison [xx:34-] Jirka Kosek Norman Walsh Gershon Joseph Regrets: Robert Stayton Absent: Adam Di Carlo Mark Johnson Alex Povzner | 2. Accepting the minutes[1] of the previous meeting. Accepted. | 3. Next meeting: 21 June 2006 Proposed: 28 June 2006 Regrets: Dick Accepted. | 4. Review of the agenda. Accepted with the addition of 5b. | 5. Review of open action items | | a. Mark, Nancy, and Norm will consult their legal resources | regarding OASIS IPR policy choice. Completed. | b. Norm and Bob to review and close any RFEs that should be closed. Continue. | c. Norm to add these RNG customization guidelines to the reference | guide. | | d. Dick to add RNG customization guidelines to the HowTo document. Completed. | e. Jirka to investigate whether modifier needs to be added to any | content models (for synopsis annotations). Completed. | f. Jirka to investigate whether modifier needs a class attribute. Completed. | g. Norm to add person and org elements to V5 Beta 6. Continued. 5b. DocBook/ODF/DITA interop story There's a mailing list for this. And Dee sent a summary of the interop scenarios being discussed. ODF? DITA/DocBook interop story is sort of obvious. The ODF angle seems quite different. Propose we invite Dee to attend next month for further discussion. Accepted. | 6. DocBook 4.5 standards progress. Norm thought it would go out for a vote this month. Norm will follow-up with Mary to see what happened. We'll figure out campaigning strategies for getting votes after the call goes out. | 7. DocBook 5 issues. Norm introduces the issue of foreignphrase in bibliomixed (it's not allowed and should be). Proposal: allow db.publishing.inlines in bibliography entries. Accepted. Jirka introduces the idea of a persistent URI for the latest DocBook schema. Pro: Documents like the HOWTO can refer to it. Con: Using it for validation could be odd Users could get confused Maybe what we need is a page that lists the latest version, introducing a layer of indirection. Jirka wants direct links to the schema documents directly. Consensus is that problems with a "latest schema" link outweight the benefits. Proposal: let's not. Accepted. When do we move 5.0 to CR? Norm suggests that we wait until voting on 4.5 is finished. Jirka worries that we won't get adoption until we get it out officially. Norm suggests that announcing CR1 at XML conference might be a good idea. Some agreement. We'll continue testing and see if we can continue to feel confident about that date. | 8. Resolve ourselves against the new OASIS IPR policy. | See http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/chairs/200602/msg00038.html | Continued from previous meeting. There are three IPR modes: - RAND - RF on RAND - RF on Limited Terms Norm summarizes the state of play and suggests that RF on Limited Terms is our best option. RAND didn't win any support. No one objects to RF on Limited Terms as a proposal. We must adopt the new terms by April 2007. The open question is, are we comfortable with RF on Limited Terms? Nancy suggests that it isn't ideal, it isn't as open as we might like, but it's much better than ending the TC (our only other choice). Can we restrict the license in future releases? Not for earlier releases of course, but probably for a new release. We believe DITA is going with RF on Limited Terms (but they haven't voted yet.) Proposal: We'll plan to advance with RF on Limited Terms eventually, but we won't start the paperwork right away. We'll give folks time to consider how confortable they are with RF on Limited Terms. Accepted. ACTION: Nancy/Norm to find out if making the license more restricted is going to cause any heartburn. | 9. Proposal for annotations on synopsis elements [2] | Continued from previous meeting. Jirka summarizes his mail: http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/docbook-tc/200605/msg00009.html Proposal: change content model of methodparam as proposed and allow xml:space on modifier. Accepted. | 10. 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 | | 1473273 person/org in author, editor, etc? Now that we've added person, author looks a lot like person. Should we put person inside author? Norm points out the drawbacks: it's backwards incompatible and it adds an extra wrapper that doesn't add any value. | 1473274 add mediaobject to person and org Scott outlines the use case, but observes that he's really talking about extensions, not core hardware and software use cases. Norm ponders the use of annotations. Gershon isn't convinced; it's an infrequent need and not really the typical use case for hardware and software documentation. Norm suggests that Scott give it a try with annotations. Proposal: Reject for now, Scott will bring it back if it comes up in hardware and software documentation as a significant issue. Accepted. | 1478012 Add linumsep and linenumstep to programlisting and screen Norm reminds the group about list number continuations in ordered lists and the attribute for selecting proportional or monospaced fonts. Gershon suggests that it's a stylesheet issue. Jirka proposes that the stlyesheets could handle even the difficult cases of numbering changes for very short listings. General agreement that the separator is a bad idea in an attribute. But starting and increment are possibly reasonable. Norm worries about continuations and about starting item numbers in orderedlists. Gershon points out that users can add custom attributes if they need it. Norm worries about doing this without a comprehensive proposal. We need to consider all the places where we have (or might have) automatically generated numbers and try to treat them all the same. ACTION: Norm to write a more comprehensive proposal for numbering changes. Any other business? Jirka asks if anyone else is going to WWW 2006? Not anyone else on the call. Anyone going to Extreme? Norm and Larry... Adjourned. | - --- | | [1] http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/docbook-tc/200604/msg00024.html | [2] http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/docbook-tc/200602/msg00023.html Be seeing you, norm -- Norman Walsh <ndw@nwalsh.com> | Everything should be made as http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/ | simple as possible, but no simpler. Chair, DocBook Technical Committee |
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