Re: [docbook-tc] DocBook Technical Committee Meeting Minutes: 22 June 2016

Hi Bob,

In response to the minutes, I have updated Norm's role on the TC to Voting
Member, yours to Chair, and Dick's to Secretary. The changes should show up
on the public web page in about a half hour.

/chet

On Wed, Jun 22, 2016 at 3:37 PM, Bob Stayton <[email protected]> wrote:

> DocBook Technical Committee Meeting Minutes: 22 June 2016
> =============================================================
>
> The DocBook Technical Committee met on Wednesday,
> 22 June 2016 at 2:00pm ET.
>
> 1. Roll call
>
> Present: Dick Hamilton, Scott Hudson, Jirka Kosek, Larry Rowland,
> Bob Stayton
>
> 2. Accepted the minutes [1] of the previous meeting.
>
> 3. Next meeting: 20 July 2016
>
> 4. Review of the agenda.
>
> Bob: add discussion of content models of <option> and <optional>.
>
> 5. Review of open action items
>
>    a. Norm to review the non-normative XML Schema version of 5.1
>       to make sure it has all the latest changes.
>       CONTINUED
>
>    b. Everyone to beat the bushes for SoUs.
>       COMPLETED
>
>    c. Norm to complete his XInclude implementation.
>       CONTINUED
>
>    d. Bob to round up the SoUs and submit them.
>       COMPLETED
>
>    e. Jirka to investigate use of otherclass for other elements.
>       COMPLETED
>
>    f. Bob to investigate assembly for XInclude equivalents.
>       CONTINUED
>
>    g. Larry will look into ISO standards for admonitions.
>       CONTINUED
>
>    h. Scott to look into ANSI standards for admonitions.
>       COMPLETED
>
> 6.  Elect new officers.
>
> Norm Walsh submitted his resignation to the DocBook TC on 16
> June.  That is certainly the passing of an era.
>
> Dick nominated Bob to be the new Chair.  This motion was seconded
> and approved unanimously.
>
> Bob nominated Dick to be the new Secretary to replace Bob in that
> role.  This motion was seconded and approved unanimously.
>
> ACTION: Bob to transition secretarial duties to Dick.
>
> 7.  Publisher's and eLearning subcommittee reports
>
> Remove this from the standing agenda and await Scott's request to
> add it.
>
> 8.  XInclude 1.1 status.
>
> Jirka reported that the W3C XML Core Working Group is continuing
> to make progress on getting the new XInclude 1.1 standard
> approved.  He will keep us informed.
>
> 9.  DocBook 5.1 release
>
> We obtained three Statements of Use for DocBook 5.1. We submitted
> 5.1 to a Special Majority Ballot for the TC to officially approve
> it.  The TC members voted and approved it, but the ballot does
> not close until 23 June.  After which it will enter a 60-day
> public review period before it moves to the full
> OASIS vote.
>
> ACTION: Bob to follow up on OASIS voting procedure and what the
> TC can do to ensure success.
>
> 9a.  Content models of option and optional.
>
> A message on the docbook mailing list questioned the change in
> the content models of option and optional from version 4 to 5.
> Formerly they contained the technical inlines, but now they
> don't.
>
> ACTION:  Bob to ask Norm if he knows why they were changed.
>
> 10.  Review of Requests for Enhancement
>
>     To browse a specific RFE, enter the URL (on one line):
>
>       https://sourceforge.net/p/docbook/rfes/300/
>
>     RFEs to revisit for 6.0
>
>     247   1907003  biblioid content model too broad
>
>    RFEs under discussion
>
>    Ticket  Tracker
>     260 2820947  Ability to transclude text
>     273   3035565  Allow sections at any level
>     291   3491860  license tag  (hold for 5.2)
>     306            Allow Block Elements inside abstract
>
>     Github Issues
>     6     Add buildtarget element
>     7     Allow revnumber inline.
>     53    Extend article @class with other and otherclass
>
> Jirka submitted his analysis[2] of this issue, and recommended
> that we approve adding otherclass to article, but other elements
> do not need it.  APPROVED.
>
>     54    Add XIncludes to Assembly Schema
>     55    Add <danger> to list of admonitions
>
> Scott reviewed ANSI standards.
> Larry will do some more investigation of ISO standards and we
> will discuss this at the next meeting.
>
>     New RFEs on GitHub
>
>     58    Allow Block Elements inside <abstract>
>
> After discussion, this item was APPROVED for the next DocBook
> release beyond 5.1
>
>     59    Allow <modifier> within <paramdef>?
>
> After discussion, this item was APPROVED for the next DocBook
> release beyond 5.1
>
>     60    Allow <void> within <funcdef>?
>
> After discussion, this item was APPROVED for the next DocBook
> release beyond 5.1
>
> ACTION: Jirka will contact Norm about transitioning the DocBook
> schema files so that he can make edits to them as we proceed with
> changes beyond version 5.1.
>
> -----
>
> [1] https://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/docbook-tc/201605/msg00007.html
> [2] https://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/docbook-tc/201605/msg00008.html
>
> --
> Bob Stayton
> Sagehill Enterprises
> [email protected]
>
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