DocBook Technical Committee Meeting Agenda: 17 September 2008

DocBook Technical Committee Meeting Agenda: 17 September 2008

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The DocBook Technical Committee will meet on Wednesday,
17 September 2008 at 01:00p EDT (10:00a PDT, 17:00GMT,
18:00BST, 19:00CEST, 02:00JST+, 022:30p India+) for
90 minutes.

Attendance at teleconferences is restricted to members
(and prospective members) of the committee.

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Unless we hear from Norm, this is the phone number
 for Wednesday's DocBook TC call:
Phone: +1-719-387-5556

Code: 902213
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The DocBook TC uses the #docbook IRC channel on
irc.freenode.org.  The IRC channel is used for exchanging
URIs, providing out-of-band comments, and other aspects
of the teleconference, so please join us there if at
all possible.

Agenda

1. Roll call
2. Accepting the minutes with corrections [1] of the previous meeting.
3. Next meeting: 15 October 2008
4. Review of the agenda.
5. Review of open action items

  a. Bob to organize TDG reading after names are fixed.

  b. Dick and Jim to investigate using a map for modular DocBook.

  c. Norm to write up a backwards compatibility policy document.

  d. Gershon to communicate with JoAnne Hackos regarding adoption committee.

  e. Norm to incorporate group parameter change (RFE 1998852) into the
schema

for 5.1.

  f. Norm to ask mailing list about 'rep' on methodparam.

6.  DocBook TC charter review.

7.  DocBook 5.0 standards update

8.  Policy for backwards compatible changes.

9.  Publishing Subcommittee report.

10. DocBook Adoption Committee proposal.

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

These RFEs postponed until after 5.0 release

1097183  Allow Task as a sibling of sections

1679665  Add better support for modular documentation

1722935  DocBook 5: Adding proofreader in @class for othercredit?

1770787  Rename firstname and surname

1907003  biblioid content model too broad

RFEs to be considered

2021383  Is 'rep' on methodparam a mistake?

2067915  add floatstyle attribute to sidebar

2100736  initializer should allow constants

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[1] http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/docbook-tc/200808/msg00014.html

Bob Stayton
Sagehill Enterprises