DocBook Technical Committee Meeting Minutes: 14 JUL 2021

DocBook

Technical
  Committee Meeting Minutes: 14 JUL 2021

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The    DocBook    Technical Committee met on Wed, : 14 JUL 2021
 (11am PDT, 12noon MDT, 1pm CDT, 2pm EDT, and 8pm CET)

  Roll call
 Scott Hudson
 Bob Stayton
 Norm Walsh
 Larry Rowland

  Accept the minutes [1] of the previous meeting (09 JUN 2021).

Next meeting: 11 AUG 2021

  Review of open action items

a.

Norm to update the Definitive Guide. [COMPLETE as of a4]

b.

Bob to generate list of changes in v5.2 [COMPLETE as of a4]

  Social media presence for    DocBook

  Purpose: To raise awareness of actions (votes, calls for information, etc.)
 Norm posted to Twitter regarding updated TDG and beta v5.2b10a4.

a. Plan to post announcement for review of v5.1.1

  Remaining items for v5.2 Committee Spec

a.

Test v5.2 and v5.2 Publishers schemas

b.

Bob ran a diff of the v5.1.1 and v5.2 schemas to capture a list of all changes between the versions to capture the list of changes to include in the v5.2 schema [COMPLETE]

c.

Bob to generate the list of changes for the release notes and send to the TC list. Bob to submit to the DocBook mailing list as well for feedback. [COMPLETE]

d.

Norm fixed issues with duplicate enum. Should be able to move forward with an A5 version (with hopes of releasing as Beta).
 OASIS path name changes (catalog) also need to be fixed.

 Bob submitted DocBook v5.1.1 as approved (using the OASIS form).

  Remanining issues

  206
 Relax the constraints on the new 'meta' element to support RDFa (and perhaps other schemes) more appropriately   v52
 Make name attribute optional on meta.
 Status: APPROVED



205

glossary.collection and linkend
 Stylesheet issue, not a schema issue. Norm to move issue to stylesheet repo.



204 Consider implementing a plugin to do validation

Status: Part of build process, not specification



 201  use correct OASIS URLs in catalog.xml

Status: ACTION: Bob to complete


111
DocBook
  Library (tentative name)

Status:  Norm implemented his suggestions
  and Bob approved the Pull Request merge.  Originator objected to the merge.

Status: IMPLEMENTED.



  141
The
  definition of db._any is too narrow

 Status: CLOSED.



  148
Should
  simplesect be allowed in legalsection?

 Status: CLOSED.



  149
Should
  legalsection be allowed in topic?

 Status:  CLOSED.



  150
Support
  legal sections with a class attribute?

 Status: Accepted.

From 14OCT2020 minutes:

  Adopt the @class="legal" for all of the sect levels, but let's leave unresctricted. Allow extension through the @class="other" and @otherclass attributes. Either section in legalnotice,
  or as a regular section with the class attribute would be considered.

               ACTION: Bob to follow up with Norm on implementation.



  151
Add
  a schematron rule for the callout type constraint

 Status: Accepted and closed.
 ACTION:   Check next beta



  152
Add
  schematron rules for productionset reference constraints

 Status: Accepted, closed, and implemented.
 ACTION:   Check next beta



  153
Future
  use comments for XLink elements

 Status: This became the meta element in info.  Accepted, closed, and implemented in PR #176.
 ACTION: Check next beta.



  156
docbookxi
  doesn't support XInclude 1.1

 Status: Accepted, closed, and implemented in PR #175.
 ACTION: Check next beta.



  157
Propose
  algorithm float along with figures, tables, and examples?

 Status: This became type attribute. Accepted, closed, and implemented in PR #185.
 ACTION: Check next beta.



  158
Get
  rid of docbook-schemas Maven artifact dependencies

 Status: CLOSED. Norm says this does not affect the schema but is a build artifact.



  163
Add
  Transclusion Attributes to Assembly Schema

 Status: tentatively approved, need to see beta.
 ACTION:   Check next beta.



  164
Allow
  pubwork attribute on biblioentry

 Status: Accepted, closed, and implemented in PR #184.
 ACTION: Check next beta.



  171
Support
  CRediT for contributor info and allow several roles?

 Status: Norm suggested using @role. Scott followed up and requestor is OK to implement using @role.
 ACTION: Bob to ask Norm to implement it



  172
DB5.1:
  Schematron anomaly with the rule: "Root must have version"

 Status: Accepted and implemented as 5.1.1 by Norm in PR #181.
 ACTION:
COMPLETE.



  180
title
  and titleabbrev: do they both need to be either inside <info> or outside?

 Status: TC not inclined to change the schema.
 ACTION: Bob to ask Norm to update TDG to clarify this.



  188 include.xsl doesn't work if there is div around overriden definitions inside include

  Status: Jirka added a fix for this.

  ACTION: TC to test schemas



  Norm to create new Alpha based on fixes for 206 and catalog fixes. Plan to turn around as Beta 11 as soon as possible.