DocBook Technical Committee Meeting Agenda: 20 August 2008
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*** NOTE: new meeting time is four hours earlier.
The DocBook Technical Committee will meet on Wednesday, 20 August 2008 at
01:00p EDT (10:00a PDT, 17:00GMT, 18:00BST, 19:00CEST, 02:00JST+,
022:30p India+) for 90 minutes.
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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.
3. Next meeting: 17 September 2008
4. Review of the agenda.
5. Review of open action items
a. Bob to organize TDG reading after names are fixed.
b. Dick and Jim to investigate using a map for modular DocBook.
c. Norm to follow up with Mary about finalizing the Committee Spec.
d. Norm to add a set of schemas incorporating the
W3C ITS standard that includes Ruby.
e. Bob to add backwards compatibility policy to next agenda.
f. Norm to write up a backwards compatibility policy document.
g. Norm to work with Mary to facilitate 5.0 as
an OASIS Standard.
h. Bob to add DocBook adoption committee to next agenda.
j. Norm to query committee members by email about
the suggested time change.
k. Norm to write content models of group element for consideration.
6. DocBook 5.0 standards update
7. Policy for backwards compatible changes.
Please review Norm's proposal [2]
8. Publishing Subcommittee report.
9. DocBook Adoption Committee proposal.
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
RFEs to be considered
1907003 biblioid content model too broad
1998852 Provide a mechanism to group parameters
2021383 Is 'rep' on methodparam a mistake?
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[1] http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/docbook-tc/200807/msg00005.html
[2] http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/docbook/200807/msg00029.html
Bob Stayton
Sagehill Enterprises
bobs@sagehill.net