Oxford2013-Actions

Council Actions from November 2013 Oxford Meeting

A list of actions, those responsible, and what has been done about them from Oxford 2013 face to face meeting of TEI Technical Council

Ticket	Who	What	Result
http://tei.oucs.ox.ac.uk/EEBO/ for summary of problem, and links to tickets) SR: EEBO-TCP is a gigantic resource that claims to be	SR	SR will implement the schema change of adding @place to stage and will document and provide an example.
	HC	HC to report on XPointer resolver and whether we should progress it.
FR 384 : In April RW made a spreadsheet showing which elements she recommends moving into att.typed. And in	SB, RW	SB and RW will review the list again.
FR 457 : KH: In the ticket I want to clarify what you use tagUsage for and what to put in a project-specifi	KH, LB, JC	KH, LB, and JC will review and make a recommendation to Council before the next face-to-face.
FR 459 : This is just waiting for implementation.	SB	SB will implement by end of January 2014.
FR 465 : Gabby and HC seem to agree on it, and the example looks sensible. LB’s comment could be raised as	HC	HC will implement before end of January 2014.
FR 453 a place for metadata that you can't fit into existing header elements AMBER open Discussion talks mo	MH, PS, LB	MH will offer DC examples and PS will offer MARC examples. LB will pull them together into some text to be inserted into the Guidelines. Given this, Council will reconsider the feature request and whether to create the wrapper element.
FR 384 that once 384 is implemented, we’ll add a note on att.typed reminding people that this is meant for	HC, KH	HC will implement [DONE]. KH will add a comment to FR 384 [DONE].
FR 479 Adding the @place attribute to head and seg AMBER open JC noted that head is not meta-textual or in	SR	SR to take the ticket, and get more examples from the submitter [DONE].
FR 476 use of stage inside poetry, and using placement attribute (AMBER open). (Council agreed to @place; s	JC	JC to close ticket FR 476 noting it has been resolved.
FR 481 check that all sibling att.translatable elements have @versionDate (AMBER open). (Agreed that siblin	SB	SB to check whether this is implemented, and if not, get it implemented then close the ticket.
FR 462 idno@type='uri' for Linked Data AMBER open (We agreed. @type=”URI” alongside @type=”URL”) EM: The su	HC	HC to implement this and close the ticket FR 462.
FR 471 extend the possible usages of argument (AMBER open). (If the intended use case is encoder-supplied a	LB, MH
FR 472 docDate in dateline ? EM: dateline does not allow docDate, but byline allows docAuthor. This is inco	MH	MH to add docDate to dateline, and clarify with usage notes [Done].
FR 360 New attribute @keepHyphen. Ticket open, ticket GREEN, it’s rejected throughout the comments.	PS	PS to provide an example of the mechanism recommended to handle the use-case.
	LB	LB to add the new elements and the documentation ahead of the next release; documentation need only be at the element level, along with some brief introduction in the Guidelines, to be expanded to a full section later.
TEI Roma Replacement Specification JC: The existing Roma is dated and flawed, as we all know. Many tickets have come up which we cannot	JC	ALL Council to go through the proposal again and discuss it, remembering to look at the comments, and further refine it. JC to make sure it’s tidied up. Deadline: next teleconference.
FR 445 Conversion of ODD to HTML: Examples should be aware of element renaming closed-fixed, implemented by	SR	SR to add gi and att renaming to complete the ticket. [COMPLETED FOR gi. Not possible for att.]
FR 443 @resp should be a member of att.global AMBER open. JC and SR: Global attributes should really not be	MH, LB	MH and LB to agree on clarification to Guidelines to say that @resp means different things: responsibility for markup and content except when the element in question is a transcriptional element, in which case the content of the element is marked as coming from the source.
FR 468 : HC: precision expresses false precision that’s not real probability. It’s something more like cert	KH	KH to add to the deprecation document the requirement to announce to the community that we plan to deprecate something and to get in touch if you object.
FR 468 : HC: precision expresses false precision that’s not real probability. It’s something more like cert	HC	HC to email TEI-L.
FR 468 : HC: precision expresses false precision that’s not real probability. It’s something more like cert	SB
FR 303 check the apache logs for frequent 404s (AMBER open). Action: JC to ask DS to make the TEI-C webserv	JC, MH	JC to ask DS to make the TEI-C webserver logs available somewhere we can see them; then action on MH to write script to generate lists of bad links of various types. JC also to check google analytics/Webmaster tools. Deadline to report back by next conference call.
FR 305 Updating info on projects page (AMBER open). Project pages go out of date. There is a way to submit	JC	JC to ask DS to make that correction info available on each project page, along with its last-updated date if possible (and the latter should also show up on the bullet-point list).
FR 466 Make it possible to add SIG labels to tickets (AMBER open). Action: JC as SIG Coordinator to tell th	JC	JC as SIG Coordinator to tell the SIGs that if they wish, we can make their SIG convener a developer on SF and make it possible to assign SIG labels to tickets. Deadline: next teleconference.
FR 470 att.measurement and att.dimensions overlap (AMBER open). We are not really sure why all of these att	MH	MH to move @commodity into its own class, and move measure and measureGrp to att.dimensions. Ticket to GREEN, assign to MH. [Subsequent study suggests to MH that this may be more complicated than it seems, and may have to wait on our having the ability to override valLists in attributes from attribute classes at the element level.]
FR 442 Allow foreign to contain q (AMBER open). The group felt this should be rejected. Action:SR to close	SR	SR to close ticket because it’s rejected [DONE].
FR 433 loosen content model of salute (AMBER open). SR: Underlying this was a desire for symmetry between s	SR	SR will carry this out [DONE].
FR 477 lines of poetry inside trailer (AMBER open). The request is for symmetry between head and trailer. T	SR	SR to find a good way to achieve this, since what was done before with head was rather strange. [DONE; HAVE COPIED WHAT WAS DONE WITH head.]
FR 383 where to put idno within biblStruct? (AMBER open) This is one of three tickets where KH could not fi	KH, SB	KH will create a new ticket pointing to this and the other two tickets with deprecation problems (as listed on the wiki) saying we need a way to deprecate members of content model and reassign to SB to solve the three tickets using a Schematron warning, and to add @validUntil on constraintSpec.
FR 383 where to put idno within biblStruct? (AMBER open) This is one of three tickets where KH could not fi	SR	SR to check how @validUntil makes the build fail when out of date, and if necessary update this mechanism so it can handle @validUntil on constraintSpec [DONE. It applies to tei:*[@validUntil], so should just work.] . (Ticket 383 will wait on all this, along with the two other tickets.)
FR 366 rationalize content models of org and place (etc) (AMBER open). Group thinks a small group of people	JC, LB, SB	JC to make ticket red, should stay with JC, and he should initiate the process, working with LB and SB.
FR 458 Make listBibl and model.biblLike member of model.personPart (AMBER open). Lou has already done items	LB	close the ticket.
bottom of wiki agenda page ) SR: Why are we proposing using alpha and beta? MH: Because we were proposing asking the community	MH, SR	Assign MH to update the release documentation re alpha and beta, and investigate how we might add the SVN last changed date and the rev number to the bottom of pages. [Latter bit done by SR 2013-11-14. Documentation in TCW22 updated by MH 2013-11-14.]
	JC, HC, SR, EM	JC to approach the DH 2014 committee and find out how they would prefer us to do it, and whether it’s a good idea; and tell the Board that HC, SR and EM are prepared to be involved in organizing this along with one or more Board members.
	EM	EM to make sure this happens.
	MH	MH to get contact info on original groups and activate if possible, probably starting with French and Italian
	LB	LB to testdrive the spreadsheet.
	BB, RW	BB and RW to turn into bug reports those attributes that are without examples that are high priority or need new/updated definitions.
FR 482 The term strikes back - terminology chapter (AMBER open). The ISO is working on a standard for termi	LB, KH, SB	LB, KH and SB to articulate a more generic policy for TEI on the integration of external standards and will generate a one-page proposal for this policy. This should be provided to Council ahead of the next teleconference. In addition, LB, KH, and SB will check with Laurent that he wants TBX incorporated into the Guidelines as is or kept in sync in the future and what he thinks about melding into the rest of the TEI Guidelines (in language, approach, element naming conventions) or keeping it self-contained.
FR 405 Wrong schema generated (AMBER pending-accepted). This is due to a bug in the current version in Roma	MH	MH to see if it has been fixed, and if so, close the ticket [DONE].
FR 294 altIdentifier is deprecated within msPart (AMBER open). Action: KH to change to Green and add to the	KH	KH to change to Green and add to the ticket about deprecation using Schematron along with 383, if not already done.
FR 264 altIdentifier in msPart (AMBER pending-accepted). Action: JC to change to Green and assign to himsel	JC	JC to change to Green and assign to himself, then nudge Torsten for an example of an altIdentifier within an msPart.
FR 300 Move witStart et al. to model.milestoneLike (AMBER pending). Action: EM to change to red and assigne	EM	EM to change to red and assigned to EM to chase up or otherwise close ticket.
FR 377 retaining punctuation marks in the text of a TEI document (AMBER open-accepted). RW says she has add	RW	RW to finish the work and ask for help if necessary.
FR 345 members of model.respLike should be members of att.declarable (AMBER open-later). Breakout group ins	SR	SR to make the ticket Green and go ahead and implement it, including some documentation/examples. [DONE]
FR 480 Adding the @hand attribute to all (or most) text-containing elements (AMBER open). Breakout group wa	LB	LB to respond to the ticket FR 480.
BUG 276 internationalisation links (AMBER open). Language links at bottom of a page should take you to same	JC, SB	JC to make Green and allocate to SB.
BUG 594 TEI-C website menu points to wrong index page for Guidelines (AMBER open). Fixed, will appear in nex	EM	EM to create a ticket on the Chrome problem.
BUG 619 tei_allPlus.rng: conflicting ID-types for attribute "id" of element "partialdiff" from namespace "ht	SB	SB to double-check whether able to reproduce and report back on ticket if able to.
first draft of new Guidelines sections and questions [MH] MH summarized the genesis of this text from Providence. He noted that not only th	MH, LB	Entire Council to (re)read MH’s draft before next face-to-face meeting. Once we’ve done that and agreed, someone will rewrite chapter 5 (WD) to include MH’s draft and the current section 10.6.6. LB volunteered.
BUG 288 deprecate use of gram except as a child of gramGrp (AMBER open-accepted). [This is pending creation	SB	SB to create the new ticket and write the Schematron for this particular deprecation.
BUG 515 Bad example of feature/​@fVal (AMBER open). [Change this to RED as it’s not clear what needs changin	JC	JC to check that’s been changed to RED [DONE].
BUG 578 partial and recursive segmentation of s-units (AMBER open). [The Guidelines text is clear enough. Th	MH	MH will revise content model to match the prose.
BUG 298 att.editLike should not bring att.dimensions & att.ranging (AMBER open-accepted). [MH to ask Gabriel	MH	MH to ask Gabby to implement.
BUG 302 version ignores @source (AMBER open). This is a Roma issue. Recommend marking as closed won’t fix be	SR	SR to try reproducing this and set as closed-won’t fix.
BUG 583 Adding new attribute fails in Roma schema generation (AMBER open). Same as 302. Action: SR wil set a	SR	SR wil set as closed-won’t fix and check that it has the Roma tag.
BUG 434 issues with ePub conversion (2/3) (AMBER open). Any issue not dealing with ODD processing should be	SR	SR will ask poster kindly to post there (explaining why) and close this issue.
FR 212 Generic dating class (AMBER pending-accepted). Gabby claimed in 2011 that it’s done except needs som	HC, MH	HC to investigate whether it’s actually been done. MH offered examples if needed.
BUG 528 consistency in "the Guidelines" vs. "these Guidelines" (AMBER open). This should be green. Action: K	KH	KH to do this.
BUG 548 use of modal verbs in Guidelines (AMBER pending-later). Already assigned to KH. RW agreed to help. I	KH, RW, LB	KH and RW to create a new, detailed ticket with all questionable cases. In the meantime, LB will fix the edits that KH made at r12525.
BUG 568 "How to edit the Guidelines" and chapter organization (AMBER open). SR: What MH found looks distinct	MH	MH to replace references to entity references with explanation of XIncludes in “How to edit the Guidelines” [DONE].
BUG 585 Precision element missing att.ranging class (AMBER open). Working group closed. Action: EB to ask Ga		EB to ask Gabby to open a new one about clarifying this element and relevant parts of the chapter on dating, to explain and exemplify the use of these attributes.
BUG 589 add respons and space to att.responsibility (AMBER open). Working group triage: Is it ok to add have	EM	EM will get rid of locally assigned @resp by adding to att.responsibility (thereby getting @cert as well). Will change to GREEN.
BUG 506 Meaning of @corresp rather in dispute (AMBER open). Working group triage: needs to be discussed: Is	MH	MH to create an example and run it by tei-council before adding to the Guidelines.
BUG 563 inconsistent encoding of citations to sources of examples (AMBER open). Working group recommends ass	BB, EM, PS	BB, EM, and PS to work on the ticket by mid-February 2014.
BUG 582 Need for consistency in terminology relating to TEI conformance (AMBER open). Working group: Agreed	MH	MH to deal with the ticket narrowly, using a hyphen and lowercase but leaving both “conformant” and “conformable” [DONE].
BUG 582 Need for consistency in terminology relating to TEI conformance (AMBER open). Working group: Agreed	JC	JC will create a ticket to reconsider the discussion of “conformable” and “conformant” in the Guidelines.
BUG 460 list/​@type="unordered" is not recommended, but used often (AMBER open). Working group: This bug has	MH	MH to follow the last comment on ticket to figure out our current situation.
BUG 468 Order of elements in publicationStmt (AMBER open-accepted). Group discussion: SB: Despite Lou’s comm	SB, LB	SB will do the content model and LB will do the prose. They’ll work out the specifics.
		TS to come up with a more detailed problem description and what the WG should attempt to solve by 2014-01-01.
BUG 581 `attRef` needs better documentation (AMBER open). Action: SR to implement either removal of attRef,	SR, MH	SR to implement either removal of attRef, MH to adjust documentation.
BUG 405 XPointer schemes may not nest, but see ch. 16 (AMBER open). Action: SB to fix documentation.	SB	SB to fix documentation.
BUG 601 att.patternReplacement/@matchPattern should be XPath regex, not XML Schema (AMBER open). Action: JC	JC	JC to close as a dupe of FR 432.
FR 432 Change regex flavor on @matchPattern (GREEN open). Agreed, XPath. Action: MH Write to TEI-L list, if	MH	MH Write to TEI-L list, if no negative feedback, change.
FR 469 add extent to att.dimensions (GREEN open). Agreed. Action: LB to provide an example in HD chapter (2	LB	LB to provide an example in HD chapter (2.2.3) and close ticket.
FR 460 Use of geogFeat in transcription? (GREEN open). Ok. Action: JC to do it before next teleconference.	JC	JC to do it before next teleconference.
BUG 605 clarifying add vs. supplied and del vs. surplus (AMBER open). Action: HC to emend the prose of the p	HC, LB	HC to emend the prose of the paragraph beginning "The add element should not be used" to reference the surplus element also; LB points out that the specList can't be modified, because supplied/surplus aren't defined in Core.
BUG 609 "lemma" used in a confusing way in CriticalApparatus.xml (AMBER open). Action: LB to remove the phra	LB	LB to remove the phrase "on any one lemma" from the @varSeq description.
BUG 610 "lem" used in a confusing way in CriticalApparatus.xml (AMBER open). Action: BB to remove the last c	BB	BB to remove the last clause of the sentence in question, beginning ", or to make clear".
BUG 558 name/​orgName (AMBER open). Action: RW to ask PS where he is on this; change ticket status to GREEN.	RW, PS	RW to ask PS where he is on this; change ticket status to GREEN.
FR 474 add an exemplum for @ref (GREEN open). Action: JC to poke JC; deadline by next teleconference.	JC	JC to poke JC; deadline by next teleconference.
FR 475 Stop using attributes to store space-delimited values (GREEN open). Nothing wrong with space-delimit	JC	JC to Close as Closed-rejected.
FR 461 Two small improvements to `recording` (GREEN open). Action: LB to do this by next teleconference.	LB	LB to do this by next teleconference.
FR 467 Make @name optional on tei:relation (GREEN open). Action: SR has already done this.	SR	SR has already done this.
BUG 216 half title pages in TEI Tite (AMBER open-postponed). KH has to finish comparing TEI-Tite with the Ap	KH	KH to resolve Tite problems and report regularly to Council on progress.
BUG 216 half title pages in TEI Tite (AMBER open-postponed). KH has to finish comparing TEI-Tite with the Ap		Council to ask for reports before each meeting.
FR 478 loosening content and model of `signed` (GREEN open). Agree that is is green. Though would model.div	SR	SR to implement signed at top as well as bottom [DONE].
FR 280 clarification of colloc (GREEN pending-accepted). #1 is already done. #2: Breakout group agreed that	KH	KH to remove @type from both examples, etc.
FR 389 clarify definition of @from on locus and biblScope (GREEN open). EM admits to sloth and will do so.	EM	EM to do before next teleconference.
FR 401 extend and clarify use of particDesc and settingDesc (GREEN open). JC admits sloth and will implemen	JC	JC to implement before next teleconference; Council decides it might be better to add these (model.
Cheatsheets: Short best/recommended practice documents EM: Not cheatsheets - negative implication. RW: Quick Start. HC: Quick Reference; SB: “Guidelettes”	EM	EM to ask MB to clarify what she wants from Council with regard to helping cheatsheets.
FR 482 Earlier we decided:Action: LB, KH and SB to articulate a more generic policy for TEI on the integrat	LB, KH, SB	LB, KH and SB to articulate a more generic policy for TEI on the integration of external standards and will generate a one-page proposal for this policy. This should be provided to Council ahead of the next teleconference. In addition, LB, KH, and SB will check with Laurent that he wants TBX incorporated into the Guidelines as is or kept in sync in the future and what he thinks about melding into the rest of the TEI Guidelines (in language, approach, element naming conventions) or keeping it self-contained.
FR 378 ; c.f. A Generic Formalism for Encoding Standoff annotations in TEI). Action: JC to ask Peter Stadle	JC, HC, SB	JC to ask Peter Stadler if he’d like to attend as Council rep; otherwise any interested members of Council (HC,SB) are encouraged to attend virtually.
	SB, LB	SB and LB would like to (re?-)join the task force. Council advises them to keep in mind the work by the Ontology/MS SIGs, in particular Torsten Schassan, on an ‘object’ or ‘objectDesc’ element.
BUG 229 Check desc of all xs:anyURI atts for in-doc restrictions (GREEN pending). We got rid of data.code al	JC	JC to check prose discussion all xsd:anyURI attributes by next teleconference.
BUG 312 i18n revision due (GREEN open). Action: MH, when he completes action on related ticket (perhaps afte	MH	MH, when he completes action on related ticket (perhaps after moving notes from minutes into tickets), to update this ticket.
BUG 442 update ODD documentation on www.tei-c.org and in Guidelines (GREEN open). Action: MH to finish it.	MH	MH to finish it.
BUG 336 AdBlock blocks 'msad' ID (GREEN pending-later). Per last comment, time has passed and nothing else h	JC	JC to close ticket.
BUG 587 Guidelines version info on pages should link better (GREEN open). Action: JC to carry out his last c	JC	JC to carry out his last comment on the ticket.
BUG 519 Make lb, pb, cb, gb consistent (GREEN open-accepted). Council decided to close. Action: JC to close	JC	JC to close [DONE].
BUG 441 fDecl doesn't allow att.datcat yet (GREEN open-accepted). Action: MH to prod Piotr.	MH	MH to prod Piotr.
BUG 525 citedRange and biblScope should share att class (GREEN open). SB admitted to sloth. Action: SB to co	SB	SB to complete.
BUG 525 citedRange and biblScope should share att class (GREEN open). SB admitted to sloth. Action: SB to co	MH, JC, KH	MH to check Allura settings to make sure that the owners of both bugs and feature requests receive email notifications. [JC and KH looked into this during a break and might have fixed it through another mechanism. MH to check with JC].
BUG 418 Names and Dates chapter does not mention calendar (GREEN open). Action: JC will add the prose before	JC	JC will add the prose before the next teleconference.
BUG 401 Most attributes lack good examples (GREEN open-accepted). This was previously discussed. Action: RW	RW	RW to follow up.
BUG 387 clarifying heading or title of a graphic (GREEN open). LB recently posted a comment approving of the	BB	BB will implement the ticket.