TEI Technical Council Teleconference, 2020-07-14

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Next release

Release techs: NC (note taker), HC (lead tech), JL (support tech)
When: Week of 9–15 Aug, 2020. Specific target: Tues 08-11 & Wed 08-12
Content model of <standOff>: https://github.com/TEIC/TEI/issues/1977
- examples for annotation in TEI that describes the use-cases we envision.
- Council agrees: define the content model of <annotation> and add some attributes. There has to be a section on <annotation> in the Guidelines. RV, NC: will help with writing the documentation.
- RV, NC, SB, HC and anyone else who wants to help will meet Tuesday, 7-21 at 9am EST / 2pm GMT / 3pm CEST to work on this
Several issues with “Status:Go” added to milestone 4.1.0 https://github.com/TEIC/TEI/issues?q=is%3Aissue+is%3Aopen+label%3A%22Status%3A+Go%22+-label%3A%22Status%3A+Needs+Discussion%22+

New name, timeline, responsibilities
NC: suggests to use a descriptive name, e.g. “stable” to replace “master”
RV: “main” is becoming the standard
SB: descriptive name makes sense, but can we do better than “stable”?
Proposals
- main
- released
- current-release (most Council members prefer just one word)
- release (but better with the past tense)
- stable (but is that clear that this is the actually released?
Consensus seems to be “released”, using “**rc-**X.Y.0” for the branch the release techs are working on, and to keep each rc- branch only until the next release. (i.e., release techs destroy the previous rc- branch when they make the new one.)
HC volunteers to create “released” branch prior to August release for the TEI and Stylesheets repos. (HC created “released” during the meeting.) Other repos that don't have dev branches (like Documentation) should be changed by someone who feels responsible for that repo (probably to “main”).

With thanks to EB, SB, MH, PS, and MS, all the Stylesheets issues have labels now
SB thinks that, in general, Ticket Triage person should assign labels to each new Stylesheets ticket, but not assign them to people.

In a group meeting of a subset of Council (SB, HC, Martin Holmes, MS & PS) on 2020-07-03, and the Stylesheets group meeting of 2020-07-07 (SB, EB, MB, HC, NC, JL, MH, MS, & RV), the Stylesheets circularity issue has been discussed. A working paper will be published as TCW.

Gerrit Brüning volunteers to help with specific questions
Action on MS to contact the current co-convener Stephen McCormick first and then Yasmin Faghihi and Huw Jones to ask if they want to take over the group as conveners by 2020-07-28.
MB and RV started with restructuring Chapter 11. Expectation is that they will be far enough along to ask the Council, users on the tickets, and the MS-SIG mailing list to look at their version within a week.

SB, PS, and JL to discuss issue https://github.com/TEIC/TEI/issues/1955
SB and PS to work on issue https://github.com/TEIC/TEI/issues/1918 (Investigate changing the class membership of <q>)
- almost done
SB: to ask Piotr to provide ODD for corpus — done
SB: provide a summary categorization of the Exemplar/ ODDs on ticket #1916. — done, although not as readable as I might like
MS: write email on @version issue to TEI-L — send proposal to SB on 2020-07-16.