TEI Technical Council Teleconference, 2021-03-11

Meeting times:

• 11am-12:30pm PST/2pm-3:30pm EST/7pm-8:30pm GMT/8pm-9:30pm CET
• Started:    19:08Z    Ended:    ~20:29Z

Present:

• Syd Bauman (SB)
• Helena Bermúdez Sabel (HS)
• Elisa Beshero-Bondar (EB)
• Meaghan Brown (MB)
• Hugh Cayless (HC)
• Janelle Jenstad (JJ)
• Jessica H. Lu (JL)
• Martina Scholger (MS)
• Peter Stadler (PS)
• Magdalena Turska (MT)
• Raff Viglianti (RV)

Note: ticket triage table is near the end of this document. Short virtual F2F meeting

• May 7 and 8

TEI conference/MM

• Dates not fixed yet, but tentatively week of 25 Oct 2021.
• Will be virtual, not physical.

Release debriefing

• oXygen release
  • Add instructions for the oXygen plugin to TCW 22 (HC and Martin Holmes will work on this.)
  • Backwards compatibility - how long should we sustain compatibility? Should we do a formal request to oXygen with a contract? Or ask oXygen to help us identify what features need to be supported to maintain compatibility?
    • Maven repository issue: ideally we don't host the jar file(s) ourselves but draw directly on their Maven repo?
    • oXygen would probably be willing to help us when they have major API changes.
    • Can we trust the version of the plugin produced by Jenkins?
    • What version of the oXygen library should we build against (to set the compatibility frame of reference)?
      • Now the plugin is building from 18.1, so we're compatible with oXygen versions 18.1 – 23.1.
      • Maven repo goes back to 2014, but we may not want the hassle of having to support 2 versions of the plugin.
• Updates of release minutes (NC wants to add more detail.)

Saxon upgrade

• Upgrading Saxon 9 HE → Saxon 10 HE.
• ½ done for the Stylesheets repo; expecting to do TEI repo tomorrow.
• By “done” we mean done in a branch; PRs not issued yet.
• Want to merge the branches as close together in time as possible(!)
• PS suggests running the upgrade on Stylesheets first.

Report from Computer Mediated Communication (CMC) meeting

• Met on 5 March to continue discussions toward consensus regarding the schema
  • <post>, @indentLevel vs. @rend or @rendition or @style, encoding emoji, @creation→@generatedBy
• Next meeting: 31 March, to begin drafting prose for new chapter
• Still anticipating bringing CMC to Council for review during Summer 2021, with a hope to get it into the early 2022 release (the ~August 2021 release would be great, but we doubt that will be a reasonable goal).
  • Will be submitted as a request for a new chapter.

New feature of GitHub called “Discussions”

• Did anyone have a look at this new feature or have experience with it?
• PS suggests that we could release it now silently or after the next members meeting.
• A Discussion board is easier to explore for people investigating information, and is less intimidating than a listserv where you "push" questions forward.
• We could launch it with a question, like who is still using oXygen 17?
• Who is using oXygen 11 or earlier? (JJ noted that the BC Provincial Government is using oXygen 11 to encode Hansard [the legislative proceedings] and that they are shifting from custom XML to TEI.)

Placement of classes, macro, and datatypes in modules

• See issue #1710
• How does Council feel about doing a mini-release?
• An <elementRef> that includes an element that is from a module that is not being included, you may run into trouble if it is a member of a class that you did not remember to include. (Is this a solution to that problem?)

AOB

• MT demonstrates TEI Processing Model-based version of the Guidelines, to be released as a package for eXist (tentatively for Ides of March).

Tickets

• on altIdent
  • Particularly Council input requested
  • Action on SB by 2021-03-15: Reduce that large table to just those about which there is some disagreement, and repeat request for input from Council.