TEI Technical Council Teleconference, 2020-02-11

Meeting time:

EST 09:00–10:30, GMT 14:00–15:30, CEST 15:00–16:30
Started: 14:06Z; ended: 15:34Z

Present:

Syd Bauman (SB)
Elisa Beshero-Bondar (EB)
Meaghan Brown (MB, leaves at ~15:30Z)
Hugh Cayless (HC)
Nicholas Cole (NC, arrives at ~14:20Z, leaves at ~15:30Z)
Jessica Lu (JL)
Martina Scholger (MS, chair)
Peter Stadler (PS, leaves at 15:05Z)
Raff Viglianti (RV)

Apologies/Not Present:

Vanessa Bigot Juloux (VB)
Magdalena Turska (MT)

Next F2F meeting

1–3 May 2020
Location will be Paderborn!
Action on PS: send out travel information (hotels, airports, etc.) by 2020-02-18
Action on HC: send pointer to travel reimbursement instructions (to the Council list) by 2020-02-18

Meeting times

Tuesday mornings (ET) / afternoons (CEST) affirmed as just fine.

Next Release 3.7.0

What shall we name our release?
- EB suggests: "Galileo release"
Issues that we want to close before the release:
- The deprecation messages for the new uniHan features are almost, but not completely consistent. See the deprecation list.
  - Action on SB by 2020-02-12 to change date to 2022-02-15 and change all the wordings to use the same form as the last.
- standOff
  - https://jenkins.tei-c.org/job/TEIP5-dev/lastSuccessfulBuild/artifact/P5/release/doc/tei-p5-doc/en/html/SA.html
  - The last bullet point in SA says “to contain the elements above, along with those that provide stand-off annotation or contextual information (section [ID SALDB in TEI Guidelines].”
  - Action on SB to revise wording an fix the link by 2020-02-12
- Pull request has already been approved by MT and MS, should we merge it now?
  - https://github.com/TEIC/TEI/pull/1924
  - Yes! (Done.)
- EB: Documentation updates to TCW20 (review: can we close these tickets?)
  - re #1654 (how to refer to exempla)
    - yes, issue closed
  - re #1825 (when to work in git branches, writing good git commits)
    - Consensus is yes, it can be closed, but we should also add detailed instructions on how to create a branch sometime.
- EB: Can we close #1708?
  - MS has two minor corrections for EB to implement, but otherwise yes, closed.

Internationalization Working Group Proposal

Stylesheets training session

Agreed to Tuesday, 25 February 2020 @ 14:00Z.
Action on MS by 2020-02-12: Add to our calendar (DONE — just added by PS)
Action on SB on 2020-02-23: Send reminder to list
Action on SB & MH on 2020-02-14: Set up a curriculum

Japanese translations

Implementation—difficult because each translation requires checking.
Add to Internationalization SIG tasks to meet with Martin Holmes and come up with a implementation plan.

Policy for inactive members to accompany change to 3-year terms

SB: suggests a small group of 3 convenes to craft a proposal
- RV points out it would be a good idea to have a section in the introduction-to-new-council-members about proper procedure for resignation/recusal.
- Committee formed: SB, EB, JL will work on a draft proposal for replacement policy, and will prepare and circulate draft at least 1 week before May face-to-face.
- Existing proposal to the BOD is: “Each Technical Council Member shall be elected for a three-year term, or in the case of an election or appointment to fill a vacancy between regular elections, for the term remaining for the vacant position. Terms of office begin at the following January 1 and end on December 31.”
  - Board has approved the above, but the Bylaws haven't been changed yet. BOD is figuring out whether or not the change requires membership vote.

Other issues

teidata.pointer equivalent to move/@where #1769
Proposal to resolve with a new datatype which is basically a union of enumeration and URI, akin to: https://www.tei-c.org/release/doc/tei-p5-doc/en/html/ref-teidata.namespaceOrName.html
Perhaps this can point the way to removing the duality of @x and @xRef attributes in the long range.