DocBook Technical Committee Meeting Minutes: 23 June 2010
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The DocBook Technical Committee met on Wednesday, 23 June 2010 at
01:00p EDT (10:00a PDT, 17:00GMT, 18:00BST, 19:00CEST, 02:00JST+,
022:30p India+).
Agenda
1. Roll call
Present:
Scott Hudson, Gershon Joseph, Jirka Kosek, Larry Rowland,
Bob Stayton, Norm Walsh. We have a quorum.
Regrets: Paul Grosso
Absent: Nancy Harrison, Dick Hamilton,
2. Accepted the minutes [1] of the previous meeting.
3. Next meeting: 21 July 2010
No regrets so far.
4. Review of the agenda.
No changes.
5. Review of open action items
a. Norm to develop a proposal for maintaining the DocBook websites.
CONTINUED.
b. Jirka to write up requirements document for transclusions in DocBook.
COMPLETED.
c. Norm to investigate expanding content model of sidebar (RFE 2935829)
COMPLETED.
d. Scott to submit Publishing DTD to OASIS for review.
CONTINUED.
e. Bob to republish the topic schema for inclusion in 5.1.
COMPLETED.
6. Publishing Subcommittee report.
Scott reported they are working to resubmit the spec when
they get the correct template from OASIS.
7. eLearning Subcommittee report.
Scott reported they are currently gathering use cases on the
subcommittee Wiki[2].
They are interested in using the modular DocBook under
development, and see a need for managing "transition"
text between modules.
8. Reltables in modular DocBook.
This will held until after DocBook 5.1 beta is released.
Larry suggests the current assembly elements are more
powerful than a table model for related links.
ACTION: Larry to render the current reltable example from
Bob and Norm with the current assembly elements for
comparison.
9. Transclusion in DocBook.
Jirka submitted his document of use cases for transclusion[3].
ACTION: Jirka to develop proposal for transclusion in DocBook.
10. Release of DocBook 5.1 beta.
Norm reports that the 5.1 RNG with 5.1 fixes is written.
The 5.1 spec is started, as is work on 5.1 documentation.
We are close to a 5.1 beta release. Norm is working on tools
to process the new modular doc features.
11. 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.
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[1] http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/docbook-tc/201005/msg00004.html
[2] http://wiki.oasis-open.org/docbook/eLearningSC
[3] http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/docbook-tc/201006/msg00001.html
Bob Stayton
Sagehill Enterprises
b...@sagehill.net
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