DocBook Technical Committee Meeting Minutes: 18 June 2008
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The DocBook Technical Committee met on Wednesday, 18 June 2008 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: Jim Early, Paul Grosso, Dick Hamilton, Scott Hudson, Jirka Kosek,
Ron Morton, Bob Stayton, Norman Walsh.
Absent: Gary Cornelius, 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: 16 July 2008
Regrets from Dick Hamilton.
4. Review of the agenda.
No new items.
5. Review of open action items
a. Bob to organize TDG reading after names are fixed.
CONTINUE.
6. DocBook 5.0 standards update
Norm says the review period for the Committee Specification
for 5.0 is over, but he has not reviewed all the comments so far.
ACTION: Norm to review comments received so far.
One comment suggested adding Ruby for internationalization.
Jirka mentioned the W3C ITS standard [2] that includes
Ruby as well as other internationization tags.
ACTION: Norm to respond to the poster regarding ITS.
7. Olink localinfo attribute (Dick Hamilton)
The more recent olink mechanism using targetdoc and
targetptr attributes made other olink attributes
essentially obsolete. The older attributes were
dropped in 5.0. However, the localinfo attribute on olink
was one of the old attributes, but it was not dropped.
We will ask the mailing list of anyone is using it, and
if not, schedule it for removal at some future major release
(since removing it is not backwards compatible).
ACTION: Dick to ask the mailing list if localinfo is in use
and how.
8. Publishing Subcommittee report.
Scott reported that they have produced sample of Shakespeare
from Jon Bosak' XML collection (with permission) using the
Publishing customization. They have a spec written, but
were having problems using the OASIS template to publish it.
The plan is that after this review it will be a
working draft from the DocBook TC.
ACTION: Norm to assist in getting the publishing spec published.
9. Planning for DocBook 5.1.
After 5.0 is a Committee Spec, it could be moved to make it
an OASIS Standard. However, that is a lot of trouble, and
if there are some immediate changes for 5.1, we may want
to pursue 5.1 as the OASIS Standard instead of 5.0.
We will decide this later, as 5.1 develops.
ACTION: Bob to add to next agenda whether to pursue 5.0 as
an OASIS Standard or wait for 5.1.
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
Norm proposed that these extensions could be implemented
at first as customizations, to gauge acceptance and work
out usage issues, before considering them as part of the
spec. They may also introduce backwards incompatible changes
that would have to wait for a major release.
ACTION: Dick and Jim to investigate using a map for
modular DocBook.
1722935 DocBook 5: Adding proofreader in @class for othercredit?
This may already have been done in the Publishing customization.
1770787 Rename firstname and surname
This would be backwards incompatible with 5.0, and would have
to come at a major release.
1778566 allow