DocBook Technical Committee Meeting Minutes: 27 May 2015

[Bob Stayton <bobs@sagehill.net>]

DocBook Technical Committee Meeting Minutes: 27 May 2015
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The DocBook Technical Committee met on Wednesday, 27 May 2015
at 1:00pm ET.

1. Roll call

Present: Dick Hamilton, Scott Hudson, Larry Rowland,
Bob Stayton, Norm Walsh

Regrets: Jirka Kosek

2. Accepted the minutes [1] of the previous (March) meeting.

3. Next meeting: 17 June 2015

This was changed to 24 June 2015.

4. Review of the agenda.

No new items.

5. Review of open action items

  a.  Norm to convince someone to implement the new XInclude
      standard.
      CONTINUED

  b.  Bob to integrate publishers XSL into DocBook XSL.
      CONTINUED

  c.  Bob to work with Norm to request Oxygen to implement
      XInclude 1.1.
      COMPLETED


6.  Publisher's and eLearning subcommittee reports

No subcommittee meetings.

7.  XInclude 1.1 status.

Norm reported that the W3C will be publishing a new CR draft
soon, with changes regarding attribute copying.

8.  DocBook 5.1 release

Norm reported he has resolved all the open issues except for
four. He will address the final four, which don't require TC
input.  Norm proposed that when he has fixed them all, he will
resubmit to OASIS.  Seconded and approved.

8a.  DocBook marketing

Scott suggested we start thinking about a marketing plan for
getting the word out about DocBook 5.1, assuring the world that
DocBook is alive and well.

ACTION: Bob will ask Chet at OASIS about getting an OASIS press
release.

Other TC members will look into newsletters, social media, and
other avenues of getting the word out.

9.  Review of Requests for Enhancement

    To browse a specific RFE, enter the URL (on one line):

      https://sourceforge.net/p/docbook/rfes/300/

    RFEs to revisit for 6.0

    247   1907003  biblioid content model too broad

   RFEs under discussion

   Ticket  Tracker
    260   2820947  Ability to transclude text
    273   3035565  Allow sections at any level
    291   3491860  license tag  (hold for 5.2)
    306            Allow Block Elements inside abstract

   No new RFEs


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[1] https://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/docbook-tc/201503/msg00016.html

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Bob Stayton
Sagehill Enterprises
bobs@sagehill.net