DocBook Technical Committee Meeting Agenda: 19 November 2008
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The DocBook Technical Committee will meet on Wednesday,
19 November 2006 at 1:00p EST (10:00a PST, 18:00GMT,
18:00BST, 19:00CEST, 03:00JST+, 11:30p India+) for 90
minutes.
Attendance at teleconferences is restricted to members
(and prospective members) of the committee.
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Unless we hear from Norm, this is the phone number
for Wednesday's DocBook TC call:
Phone: +1-719-387-5556
Code: 902213
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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 (September).
3. Next meeting: 17 December 2008
4. Review of the agenda.
5. Review of open action items
a. Bob to organize TDG reading after names are fixed.
b. Bob to add agenda item for using a map for modular DocBook.
c. Norm to write up a backwards compatibility policy document.
d. Gershon to communicate with JoAnne Hackos regarding adoption committee.
e. Norm to incorporate group parameter change (RFE 1998852) into the
schema
for 5.1.
f. Norm to ask mailing list about 'rep' on methodparam.
g. Bob to follow up with Norm regarding submittal to OASIS.
h. Jirka to analyze RelaxNG without Schematron.
i. Larry to investigate RFE 2100736 (initializer should allow constants).
6. DocBook TC charter review.
7. DocBook 5.0 standards update
8. Public and system identifiers for DocBook 5.0 DTD.
9. Discussion of RelaxNG without Schematron (Jirka).
10. Policy for backwards compatible changes (Norm).
11. Publishing Subcommittee report (Scott).
12. DocBook Adoption Committee proposal (Gershon).
13. Using a map for modular DocBook (Dick and Jim).
14. 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
These RFEs postponed until after 5.0 release
1097183 Allow Task as a sibling of sections
1679665 Add better support for modular documentation
1722935 DocBook 5: Adding proofreader in @class for othercredit?
1770787 Rename firstname and surname
1907003 biblioid content model too broad
RFEs to be considered
2021383 Is 'rep' on methodparam a mistake?
2067915 add floatstyle attribute to sidebar
2100736 initializer should allow constants
2132238 add a poem element
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[1] http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/docbook-tc/200809/msg00002.html
Bob Stayton
Sagehill Enterprises
bobs@sagehill.net