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DocBook Technical Committee Meeting Minutes 28 June 2006

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    DocBook Technical Committee Meeting Minutes: 28 June 2006
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    The DocBook Technical Committee met on Wednesday, 28 June 2006 at
    05:00p EDT (02:00p PDT, 21:00GMT, 22:00BST, 23:00CEST, 06:00JST+,
    02:30a India+) for 60 minutes.
    
    
    Agenda
    
    1. Roll call
    
    Present: Steve Cogorno, Paul Grosso, Nancy Harrison, 
    Scott Hudson, Gershon Joseph, Jirka Kosek, 
    Larry Rowland, Bob Stayton, 
    
    Absent: Gary Cornelius, Dick Hamilton, Mark Johnson, Norman Walsh
    
    2. Accepted the minutes[1] of the previous meeting.
    
    3. Next meeting: 19 July 2006
    
    OK.
    
    4. Review of the agenda.
    
    No additions.
    
    5. Review of open action items
    
        a.  Norm and Bob to review and close any RFEs that should be closed.
            CONTINUE.
    
        b.  Norm to add person and org elements to V5 Beta 6.
            COMPLETED.
    
        c.  (Norm?) Invite Dee to attend meeting regarding interop.
            COMPLETED.
    
        d.  Norm to push 4.5 standardization process.
            COMPLETED.
    
        e.  Norm to add db.publishing.inlines to 5.0 bibliomixed.
            COMPLETED.
    
        f.  Nancy/Norm to find out if making the license more restricted
            is going to cause any heartburn.
            COMPLETED.
     
         g. Norm to change content model of methodparam as proposed and allow
            xml:space on modifier.
            COMPLETED.
    
         h. Norm to write a more comprehensive proposal for numbering changes.
            COMPLETED.
    
    
    6.  DocBook 4.5 standards progress.
    
    The committee voted and approved moving 4.5 to become a full
    OASIS Standard.  Norm will submit by July 15 for a vote
    at the beginning of August.
    
    7.  DocBook 5 issues.
    
    None reported.
    
    8.  Proposal for more comprehensive numbering.
    
    Norm's email [2] described the current state of numbering
    of DocBook elements.  The group discussed two items:
    marking every nth line with numbers, and starting number
    on procedures.
    
    Larry suggested that the author should be able to control
    the frequency of line number display in a literal layout
    element.  He said a very short listing might need all lines
    numbered, but a long listing might number every 5th line.
    Jirka suggested that this is a stylesheet issue.
    
    Adding startingnumber attribute to procedure was discussed.
    An example was given of a description of a modifified
    procedure, where only steps 3-5 were changed, so the
    modification description should be able to start on step 3.
    
    The group did not reach decisions on either item.  
    
    ACTION: Larry will write up a modified version of Norm's mail to discuss
    further by email.
    
    9.  Units markup, see [3].
     
    A markup language for number units is being developed.
    This item was intended as an information item only, not
    as a proposal for DocBook, although it might be useful
    for certain customizations.
    
    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
    
          1478012  Add linumsep and linenumstep to programlisting and screen  
    
    See agenda item #8.
    
          1503012  New PRINTINFO for INFO  
    
    The existing colophon element might be an appropriate
    place for this information.
    
    ACTION: Bob to ask the submittor about using colophon instead.
    
          1512505  profiling attribute for customer  
    
    The group felt that there are already a large number of
    profiling attributes, and that perhaps this one was
    a bit too specific.  We discussed adding a more general
    "audience" attribute. 
    
    ACTION: Bob to add "audience" profiling attribute to
    next month's agenda.
    
    
    - ---
    
    [1] http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/docbook-tc/200605/msg00015.html
    [2] http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/docbook/200606/msg00003.html
    [3] http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/docbook-tc/200606/msg00000.html
    
    Bob Stayton
    Sagehill Enterprises
    DocBook Consulting
    bobs@sagehill.net
    
    
    
    


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