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Subject: Fw: [docbook-tc] DocBook Technical Committee Meeting Agenda: 16 July 2008
This message from Gershon is asking about whether we should consider a DocBook Adoption Committee. We will discuss this at the next telecon in August. Bob Stayton Sagehill Enterprises bobs@sagehill.net ----- Original Message ----- From: "Gershon L Joseph [Tech-Tav]" <gershon.joseph@tech-tav.com> To: "Bob Stayton" <bobs@sagehill.net>; "Norman Walsh" <ndw@nwalsh.com> Sent: Wednesday, July 16, 2008 12:48 PM Subject: Re: [docbook-tc] DocBook Technical Committee Meeting Agenda: 16 July 2008 > Hi all, > [paragraph about meeting time deleted] > > Apart from moving the TC meeting earlier (I expect that would help Jirka > too), another item I've been thinking about for a while is a DocBook > Adoption TC (like they have for the ODF TC and soon will have for the DITA > TC). Most folks seem to think that DocBook is a dying standard and prefer > to go with DITA. I still feel DocBook is a more mature standard, better > supported by the vendors, and has much better stylesheets out of the box. > I expect DITA will get there eventually, but they still have a long way to > go. DocBook is mature and the entry barrier is much lower than with DITA, > yet almost everyone is going with DITA today, regardless of whether it > really makes sense for their business needs. > > Please accept my regrets for today's TC meeting. Have a good meeting. I > look forward to reading the minutes. > > Best regards, > Gershon > > Gershon L Joseph > Director of Technology and Single Sourcing > Tech-Tav Documentation Ltd. > > > Secretary, OASIS DITA Technical Committee > Secretary, OASIS DITA Translation Subcommittee > Member, OASIS DocBook Technical Committee > > > +972-8-974-1569 (direct) > +972-57-314-1170 (mobile) > http://www.tech-tav.com > > > > ----- Original Message ---- >> From: Bob Stayton <bobs@sagehill.net> >> To: DocBook Technical Committee <docbook-tc@lists.oasis-open.org> >> Cc: docbook@lists.oasis-open.org >> Sent: Tuesday, July 15, 2008 12:29:53 AM >> Subject: [docbook-tc] DocBook Technical Committee Meeting Agenda: 16 July >> 2008 >> >> DocBook Technical Committee Meeting Agenda: 16 July 2008 >> ============================================================= >> >> >> The DocBook Technical Committee will meet on Wednesday, 16 July 2008 at >> 05:00p EDT (02:00p PDT, 21:00GMT, 22:00BST, 23:00CEST, 06:00JST+, >> 02:30a India+) for 90 minutes. >> >> ******************************************************** >> NOTE: there is a new teleconference number, which Norm Walsh >> will provide before the meeting. >> ******************************************************** >> >> The DocBook TC uses the #docbook IRC channel on >> irc.freenode.org. The IRC channel is used for exchanging >> URIs, providing out-of-band comments, and other aspects >> of the teleconference, so please join us there if at >> all possible. >> >> Agenda >> >> 1. Roll call >> 2. Accepting the minutes[1] of the previous meeting. >> 3. Next meeting: 20 August 2008 >> 4. Review of the agenda. >> 5. Review of open action items >> >> a. Bob to organize TDG reading after names are fixed. >> >> b. Norm to review Committee Spec comments so far. >> >> c. Norm to resond to poster of Ruby request regarding W3C ITS. >> >> d. Dick to ask mailing list if localinfo is in use for olinks. >> >> e. Norm to assist in getting the Publishing Subcommittee spec >> published. >> >> f. Bob to add to next agenda whether to pursue 5.0 as an >> OASIS standard. >> >> g. Dick and Jim to investigate using a map for modular DocBook. >> >> h. Norm to review his understanding of 1912756 Add @scope to index. >> >> i. Bob to add an agenda item to discuss the policy for >> backwards compatible changes. >> >> >> 6. DocBook 5.0 standards update >> >> 7. Policy for backwards compatible changes. >> >> 8. Submit as OASIS Standard: DocBook 5.0 or 5.1 ? >> >> 9. Publishing Subcommittee report. >> >> 10. Olink localinfo attribute (Dick Hamilton) >> >> 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 >> >> These RFEs postponed until after 5.0 release >> 1097183 Allow Task as a sibling of sections >> 1679665 Add better support for modular documentation >> 1722935 DocBook 5: Adding proofreader in @class for othercredit? >> 1770787 Rename firstname and surname >> >> RFEs to be considered >> 1907003 biblioid content model too broad >> 1912756 Add @scope to index >> 1998852 Provide a mechanism to group parameters >> 2017771 New common attribute: DB >> >> >> ----- >> >> [1] http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/docbook-tc/200806/msg00003.html >> >> Bob Stayton >> Sagehill Enterprises >> bobs@sagehill.net >> >> >> >> --------------------------------------------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe from this mail list, you must leave the OASIS TC that >> generates this mail. 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