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DocBook Technical Committee Meeting Minutes: 19 April 2006

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    DocBook Technical Committee Meeting Minutes: 19 April 2006
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    The DocBook Technical Committee met on Wednesday, 19 April 2006 at 05:00p 
    EDT (02:00p PDT, 21:00GMT, 22:00BST, 23:00CEST, 06:00JST+, 02:30a India+) 
    for 70 minutes.
    
    1. Roll call
    
    Present: Steve Cogorno, Gary Cornelius, Paul Grosso, Dick Hamilton, Nancy 
    Harrison, Scott Hudson, Gershon Joseph, Jirka Kosek, Larry Rowland, Bob 
    Stayton, Norman Walsh
    
    Absent: Adam Di Carlo, Mark Johnson, Alex Povzner
    
    2. Accepted the minutes[1] of the previous meeting.
    
    3. Next meeting: 17 May 2006.
    
    4. Review of the agenda.
    
    No additions to the agenda.
    
    5. Review of open action items
    
        a.  Norm to release 4.5 CR2.
            COMPLETED
    
        b.  Norm to call the question to adopt 4.5 CR2 as the
            committee's candidate for an OASIS standard.
            COMPLETED
    
        c.  Norm to determine if we need another official OASIS
            committee ballot.
            COMPLETED
    
        d.  Norm to post to mailing list about enumerated
            class values on refmiscinfo.
            COMPLETED
    
        e.  Bob to add RNG customization naming schemes to next agenda.
            COMPLETED
    
        f.  Mark, Nancy, and Norm will consult their legal resources
            regarding OASIS IPR policy choice.
     CONTINUED
    
        g.  Bob to add synopsis annotation proposal to next agenda.
            COMPLETED
    
        h.  Norm to add XInclude to info elements in next 5.0 beta.
            COMPLETED
    
        i.  Norm and Bob to review and close any RFEs that
            should be closed.
     CONTINUED
    
    
    6.  DocBook 4.5 standards progress.
    
    Norm completed all the preparation for submitting 4.5 as an OASIS standard, 
    except we need three member organizations to declare they are using it.  We 
    have two, and need one more.
    
    7.  DocBook 5 issues.
    
    Norm fixed some bugs in Beta 4 and released Beta 5 on 12 April.  Larry 
    raised a question about tables of contents and lists of titles. This will 
    be discussed on the docbook mailing list.
    
    8.  Resolve ourselves against the new OASIS IPR policy.
        See http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/chairs/200602/msg00038.html
    
    Continued to the next meeting.
    
    
    9.  RNG customization naming schemes. See Jirka's proposal [2].
    
    Jirka also posted some examples at:
    http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/docbook-tc/200604/msg00022.html
    
    Jirka's proposal was adopted unanimously.
    
    ACTION: Norm to add these guidelines to the reference guide.
    
    ACTION: Dick will add it to the HowTo document.
    
    
    10.  Proposal for annotations on synopsis elements [3]
    
    Jirka proposed using the modifier element to record this information. 
    There was some discussion about whether modifier would cover all the use 
    cases.
    
    ACTION: Jirka to investigate whether modifier needs to be added to any 
    content models.
    
    ACTION: Jirka to investigate whether modifier needs a class attribute.
    
    
    11. 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
    
          1306027  Support for annotations in synopsis elements
    
    Covered in agenda item 10.
    
          1468921  add person element
    
    The committee discussed the use cases and the proposed element structure. 
    There was concern about putting such structured content in an inline 
    element, especially personblurb which contains paragraph content. The group 
    saw the need to record information inline, but that processing expectations 
    should be that the application format some information inline, ignore some, 
    or process some out of line (footnotes, popups, appendix lists, etc.).
    
    Norm suggested that organization names need similar treatment.  The 
    following two content models were proposed:
    
    org = orgname, (address|affiliation|email|orgdiv)*
    
    person = personname, (address|affiliation|email|personblurb)*
    
    These new elements are to be added to appropriate inline content models.
    
    The proposal was accepted, intended for DocBook v5.
    
    ACTION: Norm to add person and org elements to V5 Beta 6.
    
    
    Meeting adjourned at 6:10 EDT.
    
    - ---
    
    [1] http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/docbook-tc/200603/msg00012.html
    [2] http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/docbook-tc/200604/msg00010.html
    [3] http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/docbook-tc/200602/msg00023.html
    
    Bob Stayton
    Sagehill Enterprises
    DocBook Consulting
    bobs@sagehill.net
    
    
    
    


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