OASIS DocBook TC2

 View Only

DocBook Technical Committee Meeting Minutes: 23 April 2008

  • 1.  DocBook Technical Committee Meeting Minutes: 23 April 2008

    Posted 04-29-2008 17:25
    DocBook Technical Committee Meeting Minutes: 23 April 2008
    =============================================================
    
    
    The DocBook Technical Committee met on Wednesday, 23 April 2007 at
    05:00p EDT (02:00p PDT, 21:00GMT, 22:00BST, 23:00CEST, 06:00JST+,
    02:30a India+) for 35 minutes.
    
    Agenda
    
    1. Roll call
    
    Present: Paul Grosso, Scott Hudson, Jirka Kosek,
    Ron Morton, Bob Stayton, Norman Walsh.
    
    Regrets: Dick Hamilton
    
    Absent: Steve Cogorno, Gary Cornelius, Jim Earley, Keith Falhgren,
    Patricia Gee, John Hanratty, Gershon Joseph, Dave Pawson,
    John Pederson
    
    A quorum of voting members is present.
    
    2. Accepted the minutes[1] of the previous meeting.
    
    3. Next meeting: 21 May 2008
    
    NOTE: next meeting changed to 28 May 2008.
    
    4. Review of the agenda.
    
    Add:
    
    Teleconference service.
    Norm Walsh's committee status.
    
    5. Review of open action items
    
      a. Bob to organize TDG reading after names are fixed.
         CONTINUE
    
      b. Norm to fix required refsect2 and refsect3
         in the DTD and XSD versions of 5.0.
         COMPLETED
    
      c. Norm to investigate tocdiv conversion script problems.
         COMPLETED
    
      d. Norm to submit the DB5 standards paperwork to OASIS.
         COMPLETED
    
      e. Bob and Norm to discuss how to divide up The
         Definitive Guide for reviewers.
         MERGE WITH ITEM a.
    
    
    6.  DocBook 5.0 standards update
    
    Norm has submitted all the paperwork to Mary to send out for
    official review as a Committee Specification.
    For more information on the process, see:
    
    http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/process.php#committeeSpec
    
    7.  Olink localinfo attribute (Dick Hamilton)
    
    Continued to next meeting.
    
    8.  Publishing Subcommittee report.
    
    Scott reported that they have developed two
    RelaxNG (RNC) customizations, a base publishers RNC and
    a legal profession RNC.  They want to make them
    public for comment.  The subcommittee has a new
    secretary Keith Falhgren.
    
    ACTION: the subcommittee to make the customizations
    available for comment.
    
    9.  DocBook study proposal [2]
    
    Bob described the proposal from Fabrice Talbot to perform
    a study of DocBook usage patterns.  The committee unanimously
    endorsed the study.
    
    ACTION: Bob to convey the decision to Fabrice.
    
    
    10.  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
          1778566  allow