| DocBook Technical Committee Meeting Minutes: 16 Jul 2002 | ======================================================== | | The DocBook Technical Committee met on Tuesday, 16 July 2002 at | 01:00p EDT (10:00a PDT, 17:00GMT, 18:00BST, 19:00CEST, 02:00JST+) | for 90 minutes. | | Agenda | | 1. Roll call Dennis Evans Paul Grosso Dick Hamilton Nancy Harrison Sabine Ocker Bob Stayton Mike Smith Norman Walsh Absent: Richard Lander Tim Teebken | 2. Accepting the minutes[1] of the previous meeting Accepted. | 3. Review of the agenda Accepted. | 4. Review of open action items {5 min} | | a. Bob to write a more detailed proposal for instance-based generated xref text Continued. | b. Paul to start discussion of the unresolved processing expectations of annotations Completed.[2] | c. Norm to start discussion of RFE #473365 Allow optional in funcprototype Completed.[3] | d. Mike to ask the submitter of RFE #514435 about refpurpose Completed.[4] | e. Mike to start discussion about refpurpose Completed.[5] | f. Bob to investigage RFE #558443 include storage info in metadata Continued. | 5. Approve DocBook V4.2 {5 min} Proposed: We accept DocBook V4.2 CR 3 as the official Committee Specification of DocBook V4.2 and make that the current official version of DocBook. Accepted. Proposed: We advance DocBook V4.2 for approval as an OASIS Standard at our next opportunity. Accepted. | 6. Discuss future plans {10 min} Proposed: Next should be V5.0. Accepted. Proposed: Next release should be released officially in XML/SGML DTDs, RELAX NG, and W3C XML Schemas. Accepted. A 5.0 release might tentatively be scheduled for sometime around the end of the year, but not before. | 7. IPR Statements {5 min} ACTION: Norm to get some sort of template from Karl. | 8. Discuss Annotations {15 min} ACTION: Norm to take a stab at implementation. Answer Paul's seven questions in light of that exercise. | 9. Discuss Help Authoring {10 min} Continued. Mike suggested that reviewing SiberLogic's SiberSafe product might be informative. ACTION: Dick to try it out | 10. Review of Requests for Enhancement {40 min} | | 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 | | where XXXX is the RFE number. | | 473365 Allow optional in funcprototype Continued. ACTION: Norm to follow-up | 495853 add 'caption' to itemizedlist content-model Rejected: lack of response | 558443 include storage info in metadata Continued. (Bob is investigating.) | 562343 element Package seems to be a highly overloaded term. We have two issues here: packagename as an inline and the ability to identify the package that a class (documented with classsynopsis) belongs to. WRT the inline, we'll add 'packagename' as class value on systemitem for the inline case. ACTION: Norm to continue discussion of packagename as part of classsynopsis. | 564776 process/service/daemon/server markup We have a long-standing tension between inlines and class values on system. Adding lots of elements seems fairly heavyweight. Adding class values "hides" them from new users. It's easy to add new class values, so we'll do that and let users who are finding that markup inconvenient demonstrate that they are needed broadly enough to warrant their own inline. We'll add 'process', 'service', 'server', and 'daemon' as class values to systemitem. | 565637 Associate non-inline image with link Leave pending until we settle our generalized linking questions. | 565716 URL and URN markup ACTION: Mike to follow-up to find out a little more about the users needs. We'll add 'uri' to the list of class values on systemitem. Subclassing of the URIs can be done role in the short term. | 565905 Add xrefstyle attribute Continued: Bob is investigating this. | 570068 Online values for pubwork Add class values: emailmessage, webpage, newsposting. Adjourned. | 571996 Add 'namespace' inline element | 571998 Add 'default' inline element | 573419 Add bidirectional text overrides | 573812 Allow blockinfo on blockquote | 574880 Add annotation element | | The following RFEs are awaiting action items | | 472229 Allow HTML tables | 431411 RFE 70: add generic linking capability | | The following RFEs have been moved to the bottom of this agenda in order | to make sure that all RFEs get fairly discussed. | | 413389 Enhance METHODNAME and VARNAME | 425730 Create an SVG module | 436067 splitting tech.char.class | 482818 Simplify ToC content model | 522552 Add title attribute to element | | [1] http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/docbook-tc/200206/msg00016.html [2] http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/docbook/200206/msg00153.html [3] http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/docbook/200206/msg00005.html [4] http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=514435&group_id=21935&atid=384107 [5] http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/docbook/200207/msg00102.html