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Re: [docbook-tc] Revised DocBook TC Meeting Agenda: 19 Mar2002
- From: Norman Walsh <ndw at nwalsh dot com>
- To: docbook-tc at lists dot oasis-open dot org
- Date: Tue, 19 Mar 2002 14:18:44 -0500
- Subject: DOCBOOK: Re: [docbook-tc] Revised DocBook TC Meeting Agenda: 19 Mar2002
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| DocBook Technical Committee Meeting Minutes: 19 Mar 2002
| ========================================================
|
| The DocBook Technical Committee met on Tuesday, 19 Mar 2002 at
| 01:00p EST (10:00a PST, 18:00GMT, 19:00BST, 20:00CEST, 03:00JST+) for
| one hour.
|
| Agenda
|
| 1. Roll call
Dick Hamilton
Nancy (Paisner) Harrison
Paul Grosso (prospective)
Sabine Ocker
Michael Smith
Bob Stayton
Norman Walsh
Regrets
Dennis Evans
Meeting called to order, 13:02EST.
| 2. Accepting the minutes[1] of the previous meeting
Accepted.
| 3. Review of the agenda
None.
| 4. Review of open action items {5 min}
|
| a. Norm to write a concrete proposal for linking in DocBook 5.0
|
| Action: continued.
|
| d. Norm to post HTML Forms Module V1.1
|
| Completed[10]
|
| c. RFE 440667 Affiliation lacks CorpName: Norm to write concrete proposal
|
| Completed[4]
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| d. Bob to propose explicit content models for Dublin Core metadata
|
| Completed[below]
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| e. Norm to post the list of additional places for metadata to the list.
|
| Completed[5]
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| f. Norm to follow-up on RFE 470599 Need an imagedata to fit to max size
|
| Completed[6]
|
| g. Norm to follow-up on RFE 473365 Allow optional in funcprototype
|
| Continued.
|
| h. Norm to put the following issues on the agenda for the next meeting:
|
| RFE 488378 Support xml:lang on the agenda
| RFE 482818 Simplify ToC content model
| RFE 472229 Allow HTML tables
| RFE 480957 New name and address markup
| RFE 491629 Add <personname> to %gen.char.class
|
| Completed[below]
|
| 5. Participation requirements for email ballots {5 min}
Put action closing date on the email ballot subject. Voting members
are expected to reply to all ballots, even if they indicate
abstention.
| 5b. Proposed: Make DocBook TC meetings 90 minutes instead of 60.
Accepted.
Action: Sabine to update the teleconference service.
| 6. Review of publication plan {5 min}
Feature freeze on 4.2 at this meeting.
| 7. Dublin Core metadata {10 min}
|
| Bob's proposal[7]
Move to accept the proposal as amended[11]. Proposal passes without objection.
| 8. Metadata location {10 min}
|
| The proposed list was:
|
| equation, example, figure, informalequation, informalexample,
| informalfigure, informaltable, itemizedlist, legalnotice, msgset,
| orderedlist, procedure, qandadiv, qandaentry, qandaset, table,
| variablelist
|
| And there was no disagreement on the list. Of the proposed names,
| "blockinfo" or "blockmeta" and "metainfo" were in a dead heat.
Proposal: adopt blockinfo. Proposal passes without objection.
| 8b. What are we going to do about HelpSet? {5 min}
Action: Dick to restart the discussion on the DocBook list.
Action: Dick to compare his internal customizations to the last
HelpSet proposal. There was some discussion following the last
proposal[12], which should be a good place to start.
Action: Nancy to review DITA for help authoring and summarize.
| 9. Review of open RFEs[2] {20 min}
|
| 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
|
| where XXXX is the RFE number.
|
| 480954 Extend textobject to insert external files
|
| Confirm that we accepted this.
Accepted.
| 480957 New name and address markup
|
| Proposal[8]
Accepted.
| 491629 Add <personname> to %gen.char.class
Accepted.
| 440667 Affiliation lacks CorpName
|
| Proposal[4]
Accepted.
Add 'consortium' to the enumerated list of values for class. Accepted.
| 472229 Allow HTML tables
Action: Paul to attempt a merged table model
Postpone until V4.3 at least.
| 482818 Simplify ToC content model
Postpone until V4.3 at least.
| 488378 Support xml:lang
|
| We could do this in 4.2 because the prefix is fixed.
Postpone until there's more demand
| 522552 Add title attribute to <ulink> element
Action: Mike to write a proposal for some form of generic annotation mechanism.
Meeting adjourned by lack of time, 14:00EST.
| 473365 Allow optional in funcprototype
| 488368 Simplify single index entries
| 495853 add 'caption' to listitem content-model
| 507975 revision should allow author*
| 514244 Allowing xref inside link
| 514425 Simplify info elements
| 514435 Allow reference within refentry
| 517604 Optional Title for GlossList
| 518074 More database classes
| 524225 iso-latin-5 ent
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| [1] http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/docbook/200201/msg00072.html
| [2] http://www.openpublish.com.au/Index.html
| [3] http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xmlcharent/entities-2002-02-04.html
| [4] http://sourceforge.net/docman/display_doc.php?docid=9351&group_id=21935
| [5] http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/docbook/200201/msg00073.html
| [6] http://sourceforge.net/docman/display_doc.php?docid=9357&group_id=21935
| [7] http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/docbook-tc/200202/msg00005.html
| [8] http://sourceforge.net/docman/display_doc.php?docid=9354&group_id=21935
| [9] http://sourceforge.net/docman/display_doc.php?docid=9356&group_id=21935
[10] http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/docbook/200203/msg00063.html
[11] http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/docbook-tc/200203/msg00010.html
[12] http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/docbook/200110/msg00082.html
Be seeing you,
norm
--
Norman Walsh <ndw@nwalsh.com> | If you are losing your leisure,
http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/ | look out! You may be losing your
Chair, DocBook Technical Committee | soul.--Logan Pearshall Smith