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Subject: Re: [docbook-tc] DocBook Technical Committee Meeting Minutes: 22 June 2016
DocBook Technical Committee Meeting Minutes: 22 June 2016
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The DocBook Technical Committee met on Wednesday,
22 June 2016 at 2:00pm ET.
1. Roll call
Present: Dick Hamilton, Scott Hudson, Jirka Kosek, Larry Rowland,
Bob Stayton
2. Accepted the minutes [1] of the previous meeting.
3. Next meeting: 20 July 2016
4. Review of the agenda.
Bob: add discussion of content models of <option> and <optional>.
5. Review of open action items
a. Norm to review the non-normative XML Schema version of 5.1
to make sure it has all the latest changes.
CONTINUED
b. Everyone to beat the bushes for SoUs.
COMPLETED
c. Norm to complete his XInclude implementation.
CONTINUED
d. Bob to round up the SoUs and submit them.
COMPLETED
e. Jirka to investigate use of otherclass for other elements.
COMPLETED
f. Bob to investigate assembly for XInclude equivalents.
CONTINUED
g. Larry will look into ISO standards for admonitions.
CONTINUED
h. Scott to look into ANSI standards for admonitions.
COMPLETED
6. Elect new officers.
Norm Walsh submitted his resignation to the DocBook TC on 16
June. That is certainly the passing of an era.
Dick nominated Bob to be the new Chair. This motion was seconded
and approved unanimously.
Bob nominated Dick to be the new Secretary to replace Bob in that
role. This motion was seconded and approved unanimously.
ACTION: Bob to transition secretarial duties to Dick.
7. Publisher's and eLearning subcommittee reports
Remove this from the standing agenda and await Scott's request to
add it.
8. XInclude 1.1 status.
Jirka reported that the W3C XML Core Working Group is continuing
to make progress on getting the new XInclude 1.1 standard
approved. He will keep us informed.
9. DocBook 5.1 release
We obtained three Statements of Use for DocBook 5.1. We submitted
5.1 to a Special Majority Ballot for the TC to officially approve
it. The TC members voted and approved it, but the ballot does
not close until 23 June. After which it will enter a 60-day
public review period before it moves to the full
OASIS vote.
ACTION: Bob to follow up on OASIS voting procedure and what the
TC can do to ensure success.
9a. Content models of option and optional.
A message on the docbook mailing list questioned the change in
the content models of option and optional from version 4 to 5.
Formerly they contained the technical inlines, but now they
don't.
ACTION: Bob to ask Norm if he knows why they were changed.
10. 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
Github Issues
6 Add buildtarget element
7 Allow revnumber inline.
53 Extend article @class with other and otherclass
Jirka submitted his analysis[2] of this issue, and recommended
that we approve adding otherclass to article, but other elements
do not need it. APPROVED.
54 Add XIncludes to Assembly Schema
55 Add <danger> to list of admonitions
Scott reviewed ANSI standards.
Larry will do some more investigation of ISO standards and we
will discuss this at the next meeting.
New RFEs on GitHub
58 Allow Block Elements inside <abstract>
After discussion, this item was APPROVED for the next DocBook
release beyond 5.1
59 Allow <modifier> within <paramdef>?
After discussion, this item was APPROVED for the next DocBook
release beyond 5.1
60 Allow <void> within <funcdef>?
After discussion, this item was APPROVED for the next DocBook
release beyond 5.1
ACTION: Jirka will contact Norm about transitioning the DocBook
schema files so that he can make edits to them as we proceed with
changes beyond version 5.1.
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[1] https://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/docbook-tc/201605/msg00007.html
[2] https://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/docbook-tc/201605/msg00008.html
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Bob Stayton
Sagehill Enterprises
bobs@sagehill.net
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