DocBook Technical Committee Meeting Minutes: 19 May 2010
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The DocBook Technical Committee met on Wednesday, 19 May 2010 at
01:00p EDT (10:00a PDT, 17:00GMT, 18:00BST, 19:00CEST, 02:00JST+,
022:30p India+) for 45 minutes.
1. Roll call
Present: Paul Grosso, Dick Hamilton, Larry Rowland,
Bob Stayton, Norm Walsh. We have a quorum.
Regrets: Jirka Kosek, Gershon Joseph
Absent: Nancy Harrison, Scott Hudson
2. Accepted the minutes [1] of the previous meeting.
3. Next meeting: 16 June 2010
4. Review of the agenda.
Dick wanted to add an item for Google Summer of Code.
5. Review of open action items
a. Norm to develop a proposal for maintaining the DocBook websites.
CONTINUE
b. Jirka to write up requirements document for transclusions in DocBook.
CONTINUE
c. Norm to investigate expanding content model of sidebar (RFE 2935829)
CONTINUE
d. Scott to submit Publishing DTD to OASIS for review.
CONTINUE
e. Norm to propose wording for changing the bug fixing policy.
COMPLETED
f. Bob to republish the topic schema for inclusion in 5.1.
CONTINUE
g. Larry to respond to RFE 2954469.
COMPLETED
7. Publishing Subcommittee report.
Scott not present.
8. eLearning Subcommittee report.
Scott not present.
9. Change bug fixing release protocol (Norm).
Norm proposed new wording as follows:
"A point release (X.1 to X.2, X.2 to X.3, X.1 to X.1.2,
etc.) must not contain any backwards incompatible changes
unless those changes correct obvious bugs accidentally
introduced in the preceding version."
and
"The exclusion in point 1 is designed to allow the
committee to correct errors accidentally introduced in a
point release, that are technically backwards incompatible,
without having to leave them in the schema until the next
full version."
The new language was accepted.
11. Linking in modular DocBook.
This item was regarding reltable, which is not currently slated
to be included in 5.1. We will cover this at the next meeting.
Norm wants to get out a 5.1 Beta that includes topic and
assembly very soon.
We discussed the issue of where the topic element could appear.
Larry suggested only where a chapter could appear (in book and part),
and Bob suggested adding anywhere a section could appear,
except disallowing topic and section to be siblings.
The committee favored the latter, so we will include
a looser model in the 5.1 beta.
12. Transclusion in DocBook.
Postponed until we get a proposal.
Norm will check with Jirka about progress.
13. 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
RFEs to revisit for 6.0
1907003 biblioid content model too broad
RFEs to be considered
1679665 Add better support for modular documentation
2820190 add a topic element
2820947 Ability to transclude text
2935829 Expand content model of sidebar
2964576 disallow table in entry
No new RFEs
Meeting adjoured at 1:45pm EDT.
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[1] http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/docbook-tc/201004/msg00003.html
Bob Stayton
Sagehill Enterprises
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