DocBook Technical Committee Meeting Agenda: 20 October 2010

DocBook Technical Committee Meeting Agenda: 20 October 2010

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The DocBook Technical Committee will meet on Wednesday, 20 October 2010 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.

This is the phone number for Wednesday's DocBook TC call:
Phone: +1-719-387-5556

Code: 902213

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 [1] of the previous meeting.
3. Next meeting: 17 November 2010
4. Review of the agenda.
5. Review of open action items

  a.  Norm to develop a proposal for maintaining the DocBook websites.

  b.  Larry and Nancy to render the current reltable example from

Bob and Norm with the current assembly elements for

comparison.

  c.  Nancy to send some example reltables to the tc-list.

  d.  Bob to write up a short policy statement about the use

of the DocBook namespace.

  e.  Bob to respond to RFE 3035565.

  f.  Jirka to investigate transclusion-to-XInclude mapping.

6.  Publishing Subcommittee report.

7.  Online documentation for 5.0 *and* 5.1 (Bob).

8.  Reltables in modular DocBook.

9.  Transclusion in DocBook.

Please see Jirka's updated proposal and discussion thread. [2]

10.  Discussion of Larry's help example in assembly and @type proposal. [3]

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

2964576  disallow table in entry

3035565  Allow sections at any level

No new RFEs.

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[1] http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/docbook-tc/201009/msg00010.html
[2] http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/docbook-tc/201010/msg00001.html
[3] http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/docbook-tc/201009/msg00007.html

Bob Stayton
Sagehill Enterprises