DocBook Technical Committee Meeting Agenda: 21 January 2009

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

DocBook Technical Committee Meeting Agenda: 21 January 2009
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The DocBook Technical Committee will meet on Wednesday,
21 January 2009 at 1:00p EST (10:00a PST, 18:00GMT,
18:00BST, 19:00CEST, 03:00JST+, 11:30p India+) for 90
minutes.

Attendance at teleconferences is restricted to members
(and prospective members) of the committee.

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This is the phone number for Wednesday's DocBook TC call:

Phone: +1-719-387-5556
 Code: 902213
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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: 18 February 2009
4. Review of the agenda.
5. Review of open action items

  a. Bob to organize TDG reading after names are fixed.

  b. Norm to write up a backwards compatibility policy document.

  c. Norm to incorporate group parameter change (RFE 1998852) into the 
schema
     for 5.1.

  d. Norm to ask mailing list about 'rep' on methodparam.

  e. Norm to update OASIS site for 5.0 spec and schema.

  f. Norm to update spec to include public and system identifiers
     for the 5.0 DTD version.

  g. Jirka to add schema comparison table to DocBook 5.0 Transition Guide.

  h. Norm to add floatstyle attribute to sidebar for 5.1.

  i. Norm to write up proposed content model for initializer.

  j. Norm to add subtitle to sidebar for 5.1.

  k. Dick to incorporate the final charter changes and send out for 
approval.

  l. Norm to determine OASIS requirements for charter updates.

  m. Norm to solicit for a third DocBook 5 user again.


6.  DocBook TC charter review.

7.  DocBook 5.0 standards update

8.  Policy for backwards compatible changes (Norm).

9.  Publishing Subcommittee report (Scott).

10. Using a map for modular DocBook (Dick and Jim).

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

    RFEs to be considered
      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
      2021383  Is 'rep' on methodparam a mistake?
      2100736  initializer should allow constants


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[1] http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/docbook-tc/200812/msg00007.html

Bob Stayton
Sagehill Enterprises
bobs@sagehill.net