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Subject: Correction to: DocBook Technical Committee Meeting Minutes: 20 August 2008`
One small correction for the minutes. That should be "JoAnn Hackos", not "Diane Hackos" in Item #9's action item. Bob Stayton Sagehill Enterprises bobs@sagehill.net ----- 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: Monday, August 25, 2008 9:10 AM Subject: DocBook Technical Committee Meeting Minutes: 20 August 2008` > DocBook Technical Committee Meeting Minutes: 20 August 2008 > ============================================================= > > The DocBook Technical Committee met on Wednesday, 20 August 2008 at > 01:00p EDT (10:00a PDT, 17:00GMT, 18:00BST, 19:00CEST, 02:00JST+, > 022:30p India+) for 30 minutes. > > Agenda > > 1. Roll call > > Present: Jim Earley, Paul Grosso, Scott Hudson, Dick Hamilton, Gershon > Joseph, > Larry Rowland, Bob Stayton, Norman Walsh. > > Absent: Gary Cornelius, Keith Falhgren, > Patricia Gee, John Hanratty, > Jirka Kosek, Dave Pawson, John Pederson > > 2. Accepted the minutes[1] of the previous meeting. > > 3. Next meeting: 17 September 2008 > > No regrets yet. > > 4. Review of the agenda. > > No new agenda items. > > 5. Review of open action items > > a. Bob to organize TDG reading after names are fixed. > CONTINUE > > b. Dick and Jim to investigate using a map for modular DocBook. > CONTINUE > > c. Norm to follow up with Mary about finalizing the Committee Spec. > COMPLETED > > d. Norm to add a set of schemas incorporating the > W3C ITS standard that includes Ruby. > COMPLETED > > e. Bob to add backwards compatibility policy to next agenda. > COMPLETED > > f. Norm to write up a backwards compatibility policy document. > CONTINUE > > g. Norm to work with Mary to facilitate 5.0 as > an OASIS Standard. > COMPLETED > > h. Bob to add DocBook adoption committee to next agenda. > COMPLETED > > j. Norm to query committee members by email about > the suggested time change. > COMPLETED > > k. Norm to write content models of group element for consideration. > COMPLETED > > > 6. DocBook 5.0 standards update > > For the OASIS Committee Specification, Norm has submitted > the documents. Not yet added to OASIS webpage. > > For the OASIS Standard, we still need a third OASIS member > to indicate they are using DocBook5. If we don't get one soon, > Norm will solicit again. > > 7. Policy for backwards compatible changes. > Please review Norm's proposal [2] > > Members agreed to Norm's proposal for a backwards compatibility > process. Dick suggested that we add a comment period for > any backwards incompatible changes. > > ACTION: Norm to write up a backwards compatibility policy > document to post on OASIS. > > 8. Publishing Subcommittee report. > > A draft spec has been posted. Did not meet this month. > > 9. DocBook Adoption Committee proposal. > > Gershon has noticed an attitude among managers that they > prefer DITA to DocBook, even when it might not be the > most appropriate choice for their needs. It is partly that > DITA is seen as new and DocBook as old, and partly that > DITA is getting a lot of attention. He was asking if there > was interest in forming some sort of DocBook Adoption Committee > to promote DocBook. It could provide white papers, user > experiences, and other resources, as well as provide a > presence at conferences. > > ACTION: Gershon to communicate with Diane Hackos. > > 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 > > 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 > 1907003 biblioid content model too broad > > RFEs to be considered > > 1998852 Provide a mechanism to group parameters > > Norm posted content models to the list, and got a little > feedback. His proposal was ACCEPTED for inclusion > in 5.1. > > ACTION: Norm to incorporate this change into the schema. > > 2021383 Is 'rep' on methodparam a mistake? > > ACTION: Norm to ask on the mailing list. > > ----- > > [1] http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/docbook-tc/200807/msg00005.html > [2] http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/docbook/200807/msg00029.html > > Bob Stayton > Sagehill Enterprises > bobs@sagehill.net > >
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