DocBook Technical Committee Meeting Agenda: 18 November 2009

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

DocBook Technical Committee Meeting Agenda: 18 November 2009
=============================================================

The DocBook Technical Committee will meet on Wednesday, 18 November 2009 at
01:00p EDT (10:00a PDT, 17:00GMT, 18:00BST, 19:00CEST, 02:00JST+,
022:30p India+) for 90 minutes.

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

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

Phone: +1-719-387-5556
 Code: 902213

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: 16 December 2009
4. Review of the agenda.
5. Review of open action items

  a. Norm to put the new backwards compatibility policy in the spec.

  b. Norm to put the new backwards compatibility policy in the
     reference documentation.

  c. Norm to take a look at the inlines and make a proposal
     regarding RFE 2791288.

  d. Norm to reply to RFE 2820947 (transclusion) with the
     committee's concerns (see the minutes).

  e. Gershon to develop a reltable example.

6.  DocBook 5.0 standards celebration.

7.  New edition of DocBook: The Definitive Guide 

8.  Publishing Subcommittee report.

9.  eLearning Subcommittee report.

10. DocBook assembly schema.

11. topic element (RFE #2820190).

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

    RFEs to revisit for 6.0
      1907003  biblioid content model too broad  

    RFEs to be considered 
      1679665  Add better support for modular documentation  
      2770858  Add limited emphasis to ubiquitous inlines 
      2791288  add quote to corpauthor and gui elements 
      2820190  add a topic element  
      2820947  Ability to transclude text 
      2821653  indexterms in footnotes 


-----

[1] http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/docbook-tc/200910/msg00022.html

Bob Stayton
Sagehill Enterprises
bobs@sagehill.net