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DocBook Technical Committee Meeting Minutes: 19 July 2006

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    DocBook Technical Committee Meeting Minutes: 19 July 2006
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    The DocBook Technical Committee met on Wednesday, 19 July 2006 at
    05:00p EDT (02:00p PDT, 21:00GMT, 22:00BST, 23:00CEST, 06:00JST+,
    02:30a India+) for 45 minutes.
    
    1. Roll call
    
    Present: Gary Cornelius, Paul Grosso, Dick Hamilton, Nancy Harrison, 
    Scott Hudson, Gershon Joseph, Jirka Kosek, 
    Larry Rowland, Bob Stayton, Norman Walsh
    
    Regrets: Steve Cogorno 
    
    Absent: Mark Johnson
    
    2. Accepted the minutes[1] of the previous meeting.
    
    3. Next meeting: 16 August 2006
    
    OK.
    
    4. Review of the agenda.
    
    No new agenda items.
    
    5. Review of open action items
    
        a.  Norm and Bob to review and close any RFEs that should be closed.
            CONTINUE.
    
        b.  Larry will write up a modified version of Norm's numbering
             mail to discuss further by email.
      COMPLETED.
    
        c.  Bob to ask the RFE 1503012 submittor about using colophon instead.
      CONTINUED.
    
        d.  Bob to add "audience" profiling attribute to next month's agenda.
      COMPLETED.
    
    
    6.  DocBook 4.5 standards progress.
    
    Norm filed all the paperwork to make DocBook 4.5 an official
    OASIS standard (as opposed to a committee standard).  It
    will come up for an OASIS vote on August 1.
    
    7.  DocBook 5 issues.
    
    Per RFE #1520074, Norm put effectivity attributes into separate
    definitions to permit easier customization.
    
    Norm plans to put together the schema with added modules such
    as MathML, and then will release a new version.
    
    Per Jirka's suggestion, the version numbering will move
    from alpha to beta numbering because it appears to
    be pretty stable.
    
    ACTION: Norm to make a beta release of 5.0.
    
    8.  Proposal for more comprehensive numbering.
        (continued from last meeting).
    
    Three separate numbering issues were identified:
    
    a.  Orderedlist starting number.
    
    Approved for 5.0.
    
    b.  Procedure starting number.
    
    Several members said the semantics of a procedure element
    is of a self-contained unit, and so it always starts with
    number 1.  Branching of procedures is handled with
    stepalternatives,if necessary.  There was no concensus, so
    this item was not approved.
    
    c.  Step increment for line numbering in verbatim text.
    
    No member advocated for this item, as most felt it was
    too presentational for a semantic markup languages.
    There is, however, an active email discussion going on,
    so the committee decided to wait until next meeting to decide.
    
    ACTION: Bob to add step increment to next agenda.
    
    9.  Profiling attribute for audience.
        (continued from last meeting).
     
    To be used for selecting content for different clients
    or customers, for example.  Most felt it was
    orthogonal to userlevel, that is, a given client
    could need doc in several userlevels.  The committee
    worried that there were too many profiling attributes
    already, but that this was one of the more useful ones.
    Approved for 5.0.
    
    ACTION: Norm to add audience as a common profiling attribute.
    
    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  
          1503012  New PRINTINFO for INFO  
          1512505  profiling attribute for customer  
          1520074  Chunk db.effectivity.attributes definition  
    
    There were all covered above.
    Meeting adjourned at 5:45 EDT.
    
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    [1] http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/docbook-tc/200606/msg00012.html
    
    Bob Stayton
    Sagehill Enterprises
    DocBook Consulting
    bobs@sagehill.net
    
    
    
    


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