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[Richard Hamilton]

Submitter's message DocBook Technical Committee Meeting Minutes: 21 December 2016 ============================================================= The DocBook Technical Committee met on Wednesday, 21 December 2016 at 2:00pm ET Agenda 1. Roll call Jirka, Bob, Larry, and Dick Regrets from Scott 2. Accept the minutes [1] of the previous meeting (16 November 2016). Accepted 3. Next meeting: 18 January 2017 4. Review of the agenda. No new items 5. Review of open action items a: Jirka: Port changes in publisher's schema back to 5.1 on Github. CONTINUED b: Bob will send a note to voting members who have not voted and who have not already been contacted by members. COMPLETED: vote passed c: Bob will announce discontinuation of support for XSD starting with 5.2. CONTINUED 6. Chet Ensign has asked for feedback on the OASIS process for approving standards, based on our experience with 5.1 Bob, steps were well described by Chet. Only delays were to be expected given the queue at OASIS for other projects. Overall, we were pleased with the experience. NEW ACTION: Bob will give our feedback to Chet. 7. XSD support in 6.0 Discussion as to whether we should discontinue support in 6.0 or in 5.2. Because XSD is not part of the official standard, and because the effort for converting the RNG to XSD is considerable, we decided to discontinue support for XSD starting with DocBook 5.2. Bob will announce this to the community. 8. Review of Requests for Enhancement Items 72 and 74 are new. All open RFEs are now on Github. To find a Github issue by number, enter the URL (on one line): https://github.com/docbook/docbook/issues/NUMBER Open Github Issues (All still open for v5.2 or later): 6 Add buildtarget element 7 Allow revnumber inline. 52 Allow multimediaparam in imagedata 53 Extend article @class with other and otherclass 54 Add XIncludes to Assembly Schema 71 license tag (migrated from sourceforge) 72 The DocBook websites should really be using https ACTION ITEM: Bob to talk with Norm about RFE 72 and report back to the group. 74 (Re)allow recursive use of optional Discuss RFEs in detail in January. ACTION ITEM: All: Review open RFEs in preparation for the January meeting. [1] https://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/docbook-tc/201611/msg00018.html -- Mr. Richard Hamilton Document Name : Meeting Minutes 21 December 2016 No description provided. Download Latest Revision Public Download Link Submitter : Mr. Richard Hamilton Group : OASIS DocBook TC Folder : Meeting Notes Date submitted : 2016-12-21 12:26:17