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[Norman Walsh]

DocBook Technical Committee Meeting Minutes: 23 May 2007 ============================================================= The DocBook Technical Committee met on Wednesday, 23 May 2007 at 05:00p EDT (02:00p PDT, 21:00GMT, 22:00BST, 23:00CEST, 06:00JST+, 02:30a India+). Minutes | 1. Roll call Present: Norm, Dick, Paul, Scott, Jim Regrets: Steve, Bob | 2. Accepting the minutes[1] of the previous meeting. Accepted. | 3. Next meeting: 20 June 2007 No regrets. | 4. Review of the agenda. Added item 7b. | 5. Review of open action items | | a. Bob to write up a description of xlink:role attribute | for olinks. Continued. | b. Norm to submit Internet Draft RFC for DocBook MIME type. Continued. | c. Norm to add link from main DocBook OASIS page to | the publishing subcommittee page. Continued. | d. Norm to produce a new 5.0 release candidate. Completed. | 6. DocBook 5.0. We're almost there! Dick reports that he's been using it and it's working fine. | 7. Status of Publishing Subcommittee. Scott reports: we met earlier this month and went through the full list of DocBook elements. Some we think should be core, others could be put in separate modules. We'll look at a few that still need discussion next week. Following next week's meeting we should have a set of core DocBook elements identified. Norm will attempt to get the behind-the-scenes pattern changes into 5.0CR5. 7b. Public identifiers for the variants Norm suggest that you use the rules from DocBook V4.x: http://docbook.org/tdg/en/html/ch05.html Norm will restore the Chapter 5 text on public identifiers to DocBook 5.0: The Definitive Guide. | 8. 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 be considered (as of 22 April): | 1666938 Add a description element to subject Norm explains his rationale for not being in favor of this RFE: "the point of using a controlled vocabulary is to prevent such semantic drift." Scott agrees. Proposal: Reject this RFE. Accepted. | 1704374 Add support to sparse punctuation in db:address element No reply from commenter. Norm will ping the commenter again. 9. Any other business? None. Adjourned.