TEI Technical Council Teleconference, 2018-12-17

Meeting time:

Present:

Spring F2F

6–8 May at the Folger Library, Washington DC.
Do we plan a meeting with the local organizers or a workshop?
What else, if anything, should we do? A day of lightning talks?
We will have a meeting with Folger staff. And a Folger staff member will be with us much of the time.
**Action on RV:**To organize an evening meet up on day 2.

Release technicians: (HC & EM)
January 2019: 21–22? Or can we move it 1 week forward to 28–29 Jan 2019? Action on MS: ask EM if that’s OK (HC says it’s OK with him)
- Release blocker is Measurement/Unit ticket(s): try to get it finished but could also put release back a few weeks.
- Another good ticket to check before the release: ticket #1834: List of elements page has sections for every initial letter, and doesn’t work if you have JavaScript turned off. This happens on Jenkins only, not on current released Guidelines. Check to be sure all the anchors are set.
- Refrigeration 2 weeks (Mon 07 Jan 19): no changes to code but small changes like fixing typos in Guidelines (VBJ) OK; freezing 1 week ahead (Mon 14 Jan 19) when release branch will be made.

SB, HC, & MT are working on a counter-proposal, and have questions for Laurent Romary. SB will be talking to Laurent on Fri. 12/21.
Anyway, see SB’s fork of Laurent’s repo, the “linkDataBlock” branch
Laurent will be asked for more use cases that conform to the new model. Specific questions for Laurent. (SB to send with CC to HC, MT, PS, & RV.)
Laurent Romary has asked to join sub-group — Council has no objection. Adding RV to subgroup.

Going along almost as scheduled; SB expecting (or at least hoping) to work on it mid-Jan to mid-Feb. Action on SB: send e-mail to VBJ (CC: JC) with more info on rub-a-dub project by 2018-12-24.

RV has updated GitHub issues so we can see what’s in progress.
Has working system in place for I18N.
- RV will be needing translations eventually. Strings in different languages will be read from a JSON file. Probably ask people to work with the JSON file directly (or convert to XML to convert back easily).
  - VBJ for French
  - MS for German
  - RV for Italian (current test second language)
MS will have people at her center willing to test ROMA JS.
Loading time of data into system is still slow, seems to hang for several seconds. Trying to improve this—while loading data, still display lists of elements that people can work with for example. Partly/likely due to OxGarage—let’s see if we can find out where the lag is coming from.

Marjorie Burghart on developing a TEI XML editor https://www.dariah.eu/2018/11/05/dariah-theme-funding-call-2018-2019-meet-the-winning-projects/
MS reports M. Burghart’s project was funded, but for a lesser amount.

VBJ will join next 2019 meeting on lexicography in Lyon in order to report remarks of lexicographers (members of Consortium Cahier https://cahier.hypotheses.org) using TEI. Geoffrey Williams—20-year user of TEI (he was also the president of EURALEX). VBJ will be present to relay perspective to TEI Council.