Notes from 12 April 2021 ODF TC teleconference

Patrick: 1. Dial-In, Roll Call, Determination of Quorum and Voting Rights

2. Motion (simple majority): Approve the Agenda

3. Motion (simple majority): Approve minutes of 29 March 2021

https://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/office/202103/msg00048.html

4. Revision of the ODF TC Charter - cont.

5. Adjournment.

Patrick: Add office-4106 before charter discussion

Patrick: agenda - approved by consent

Patrick: Alfred - question on the end of commenting today - add after Office-4106 but before charter

Patrick: minutes of 29 March 2021 - approved by consent

Patrick: Office-4106 - open or not

Patrick: No objections to opening Office-4106

Patrick: End of commenting on ODF 1.3 -

Patrick: Patrick to send notice to Chet about comments or lack of comments tomorrow, begins 7 day for call for consent that then runs 14 days - then OASIS standard.

Patrick: Revision of the ODF Charter

Patrick: Svante - do we want to be more precise - or more general - what to be more precise - abstract representation - need high level abstraction in all application

Patrick: wants to define change in terms of the abstract feature set

Patrick: how - there's no feature fix - need to start with a primer - for ODFDOM application - gives new users a view of the structure - list as paragraphs with more information

Patrick: a way to explain features - can't collect in a glossary, etc -

Patrick: should be able to pick features from the spec -

Patrick: 1) feature set needed for change tracking, 2) for feature picking, 3) for explaining features

Patrick: Francis - need a written proposal to decide what to work on - more general statement

Patrick: Regina - needs no additions to the scope statement

Patrick: OpenDocumentFormat (ODF) was adopted as an OASIS standard and submitted
to ISO/IEC where it became ISO/IEC 26300. That standard forms the basis
for the future development of OpenDocumentFormat.

The ODF TC will address:

1) Maintenance of existing ODF TC work products;

2) Development of existing ODF TC work products to meet new office suite
needs;

3) Development of ODF TC work products that encourage implementation of
the OpenDocumentFormat (ODF);

4) Submission of completed and approved work to other organizations in
accordance with the OASIS Liasion policy.

Patrick: Regina - we have an ODF homepage, current work should be mentioned there.

Patrick: Development - Andreas - problematic

Patrick: 2) develop -> extension

Patrick: 2) Enhancement of existing ODF TC work products to meet new office suite
needs;

Patrick: with #2 with Enhancement - scope approved

Patrick: List of Deliverables

Each of the TC's phases will result in a Committee Specification that
includes:

Patrick: The deliverables of the TC may include:

Patrick: a set of XML schemas setting the vocabulary, constraints and
semantics of the file format in question, and

* a set of written specifications that describe the elements and
attributes of the schemas in plain English.

* HTML or XHTML versions of the mentioned schemas and written specifications

* PDF versions of the written specifications

* Test documents for new ODF features

* List of changes of previous OASIS ODF specification

Patrick: * INFO SET documentation for schemas

Andreas Guelzow: The deliverables of the TC may include but are not limited to:

Regina Henschel1: List of changes from previous OASIS ODF specification

Patrick: List of changes from preceeding OASIS ODF specification

Patrick: List of changes from the preceeding OASIS ODF specification

Svante Schubert: * Abstraction from the ODF schema as ODF feature tree (or ODF INFO SET)

Patrick: INFOSET (abstract view) documentation for schemas

Alfred Hellstern: "preceeding" > "preceding"

Patrick: List of changes from the preceding OASIS ODF specification

Patrick: The TC aims to deliver a Committee Specification Draft at least every year in December. Such includes a set of RelaxNG schemas, and a set of written specifications that describe the elements and attributes of the schemas in plain English.
The TC aims to improve interaction with producers and consumers of documents in OpenDocument Format.

Patrick: Regina - needs all the changes made up to the end of the year - not a formal way for it - has the state of our work

Patrick: Not bound by the cut-off date for features

Patrick: Regina - delete - The TC aims to improve interaction with producers and consumers of documents in OpenDocument Format. covered by scope

Patrick: Requesting submission of completed and approved work to other organizations in
accordance with the OASIS L

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