11 November starting at 06:00 Greenwich Mean Time. See the calendar for your time zone.
We will use conventional IRC. The main communication medium is still the dev mailing list. The channel name is "for-n". The topic is to finish locationmap, clean up Jira, prioritise issues for next release, more xhtml2 dev. See below. So the start time is 2 hours away. -David Ross Gardler wrote: > Gav.... wrote: > >From: "Ross Gardler" > >| Ferdinand Soethe wrote: > >| > > >| > Does it make sense to base all transformations on XHTML2 (out soon to > >| > be meta-format) rather than document13? > >| > >| I would love to say yes, but then the danger is not actually getting the > >| move to XHTML2 done. We keep agreeing it should be done (for around 2 > >| years now), but we seem to be failing in actually tackling the job > >| because it is such a major task. > >| > >| At present I am thinking the only way it will ever happen is if we have > >| a complete rewrite of Forrest from the bottom up. > >| > >| Personally, I think the only way it is ever going to happen, with the > >| current method of working, is if an individual just does it. How long it > >| will be before one of us has that kind of time is anyones guess. > >| > >| Therefore, I (that is, me as an individual, this is not necessarily the > >| view of the community) would recommend using XDoc for fear of waiting > >| forever to make XHTML2 usable. > > > >Well, maybe this can be part of the discussion for Forrest Friday which > >happens > >to be THIS FRIDAY people, so whos going to make it for any amount of time > >and what should the topic of the day be. > > > >My opinion, keep on with http://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/FOR-184 > >issues and > >keep XHTML2 as the main focus along with the usual Jira cleanup. > > > >I will be there at various points in time. > > Thanks for bringing this up, sorry I've not been able to respond quicker > and help develop a plan for FF. > > I will present for some of the time. My own focus will be on finishing > off the locationmap stuff (FOR-200) which is a precursor to the views > integration which, in turn is a precursor to the XHTML2 move. > > I'll also be spending some time sorting out the issue tracker to > prioritise for a 0.8 release - maybe I'll even fix a couple of issues! > > It would be great if we can see the tasks in FOR-184 (XHTML2) fleshed > out by those who understand how the views 2 stuff impacts them. > > Ross
