DocBook Technical Committee Meeting Agenda: 23 May 2007

DocBook Technical Committee Meeting Agenda: 23 May 2007
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The DocBook Technical Committee will meet on Wednesday, 23
May 2007 at
05:00p EDT (02:00p PDT, 21:00GMT, 22:00BST, 23:00CEST,
06:00JST+,
02:30a India+) for 90 minutes.

The teleconference phone number is +1.865.524.6352. The
participant
code is 7386368. Attendance at teleconferences is restricted
to members
(and prospective members) of the committee.

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: 20 June 2007
4. Review of the agenda.
5. Review of open action items

  a. Bob to write up a description of xlink:role attribute
     for olinks.

  b. Norm to submit Internet Draft RFC for DocBook MIME
type.

  c. Norm to add link from main DocBook OASIS page to
     the publishing subcommittee page.

  d. Norm to produce a new 5.0 release candidate.


6.  DocBook 5.0.

7.  Status of Publishing Subcommittee.

8.  Review of Requests for Enhancement

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

      http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&a
mp;;
      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 


    RFEs to be considered (as of 22 April):
      1666938  Add a description element to subject  
      1704374  Add support to sparse punctuation in
db:address element  

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[1] http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/docbook
-tc/200704/msg00012.html

Bob Stayton
Sagehill Enterprises
DocBook Consulting
bobssagehill.net




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DocBook Technical Committee Meeting Minutes: 23 May 2007
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The DocBook Technical Committee met on Wednesday, 23 May
2007 at
05:00p EDT (02:00p PDT, 21:00GMT, 22:00BST, 23:00CEST,
06:00JST+,
02:30a India+).

Minutes

| 1. Roll call

Present: Norm, Dick, Paul, Scott, Jim
Regrets: Steve, Bob

| 2. Accepting the minutes[1] of the previous meeting.

Accepted.

| 3. Next meeting: 20 June 2007

No regrets.

| 4. Review of the agenda.

Added item 7b.

| 5. Review of open action items
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|  a. Bob to write up a description of xlink:role attribute
|     for olinks.

Continued.

|  b. Norm to submit Internet Draft RFC for DocBook MIME
type.

Continued.

|  c. Norm to add link from main DocBook OASIS page to
|     the publishing subcommittee page.

Continued.

|  d. Norm to produce a new 5.0 release candidate.

Completed.

| 6.  DocBook 5.0.

We're almost there!

Dick reports that he's been using it and it's working fine.

| 7.  Status of Publishing Subcommittee.

Scott reports: we met earlier this month and went through
the full
list of DocBook elements. Some we think should be core,
others could
be put in separate modules. We'll look at a few that still
need
discussion next week. Following next week's meeting we
should have
a set of core DocBook elements identified.

Norm will attempt to get the behind-the-scenes pattern
changes into
5.0CR5.

  7b. Public identifiers for the variants

Norm suggest that you use the rules from DocBook V4.x:
http://docbo
ok.org/tdg/en/html/ch05.html

Norm will restore the Chapter 5 text on public identifiers
to
DocBook 5.0: The Definitive Guide.

| 8.  Review of Requests for Enhancement
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|    To browse a specific RFE, enter the URL (on one line):
|
|      http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&a
mp;;
|      group_id=21935&atid=384107&aid=XXXX
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|    RFEs to be considered (as of 22 April):
|      1666938  Add a description element to subject

Norm explains his rationale for not being in favor of this
RFE: "the
point of using a controlled vocabulary is to prevent such
semantic
drift."

Scott agrees.

Proposal: Reject this RFE.

Accepted.

|      1704374  Add support to sparse punctuation in
db:address element

No reply from commenter.

Norm will ping the commenter again.

9. Any other business?

None. Adjourned.