DocBook Technical Committee Meeting Minutes: 31 August 2005 ============================================================= The DocBook Technical Committee met on Wednesday, 31 August 2005 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: Paul Grosso, Dick Hamilton, Scott Hudson, Jirka Kosek, Larry Rowland, Bob Stayton, Norman Walsh Regrets: Steve Cogorno, Mark Johnson Absent: Adam Di Carlo, Nancy Harrison 2. Accepted the minutes[1] of the previous meeting. 3. Next meeting: 12 October 2005 NOTE: the September meeting has been cancelled, and the October meeting has been moved up a week. 4. Review of the agenda. Two additions: 4b. Jane Harnad. 8b. DocBook 5 toolchain. 4b. Jane Harnad of OASIS presented information about the OASIS Adoption Forum taking place in London on 17 October 2005. She urged all members to attend. Information is available here: http://www.oasis-open.org/events/adoption_forum_2005/ 5. Review of open action items a. Norm to start the OASIS process to make this a Commitee Specification. COMPLETED b. Norm to publish the draft as "5.0 alpha spec" on the OASIS website and docbook.org. COMPLETED c. Norm will add simplesect changes to a new test release of 5.0. COMPLETED d. Norm will add XInclude module to a new test release of 5.0. COMPLETED e. Bob to ask each of the requestors again about three of the current RFEs. CONTINUED f. Norm will follow up with the requestor for "1237762 Allow para+ in formalpara" to get more use case information. COMPLETED 6. New OASIS attendance rules. Bob described the new OASIS attendance rules. Committee membership is no longer governed by attendance, but voting rights are. The rules are simpler: miss two meetings and you lose your voting rights. Attend two meetings in a row, and your voting rights are restored at the next meeting. Paul inquired about whether these affect quorum, and a later check of the rules showed that: a. A quorum is defined as "the number of Voting Members that must be present in a meeting so that Resolutions and decisions may be made". A quorum is more than half of the Voting Members. b. Attendance at a meeting that does not achieve quorum still counts toward maintaining or restoring a member's voting rights. 7. DTD version 4.5 Public Review Draft. The public review of DocBook 4.5 DTD started 04 August 2005, and ends 03 October 2005. No comments have been received so far. 8. Next steps for DocBook 5. Norm added XIncludes and simplesect changes to the 'pto' release of DocBook 5. He suggested the Committee prepare an alpha Working Draft. We decided to put together a package by the Oct 12 meeting: ACTION: Norm to write a how-to on converting documents from version 4 to 5. ACTION: Jirka to write a description of the current state of tools that work with 5.0 and RNG. ACTION: Dick to read the current DocBook 5 spec to make sure it is all ok. ACTION: Dick to make sure the pending RFEs are in the current schema. ACTION: Norm to make sure the namespace URI works with RDDL so users get something back if they query the address. 9. 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 1190435 Add rule tag 1190436 Add requirement tag 1194196 and Bob did not complete his action item to query the above three RFEs for further information. 1237762 Allow para+ in formalpara Norm queried for further information, but we need to wait to see if there is a response. 1245781 new element Norm responded to this RFE. ACTION: Norm to follow up with the submittor of this RFE. 1264002 Add Security Classification tags Norm responded that the security attribute should take care of this. He suggested waiting until next meeting to close it. Meeting adjourned. ----------------------------------------------------------------- The following RFEs are awaiting action items 413389 Enhance METHODNAME and VARNAME (Norm, generic linking) 431411 RFE 70: add generic linking capability (Norm) 565637 Associate non-inline image with link (Norm, generic linking) 623524 (Re)Consider "choicelist" markup The following RFEs are identified as V5.0 or later 1097183 Allow Task as a sibling of sections 1084491 Add address, orgname, orgdiv to corpauthor, corpcredit, etc. 974285 Check floatstyle/float attributes 958393 remove default class value from productname 531851 Remove inline person name elements 532088 Remove RevHistory from qandaentry - --- [1] http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/docbook-tc/200507/msg00010.html Bob Stayton Sagehill Enterprises DocBook Consulting bobs@sagehill.net