TEI Technical Council Teleconference, 2022-11-10

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Meeting minutes previous month (October)

Leave of absence

EB will be taking an extended ~1-year leave of absence.
Council wishes her the best, and really looks forward to her return.
Using the “Council can invite” clause of the by-laws, we are planning to ask the next candidate from the election results, Joey Takeda (and if he declines, Nick Cole) to serve for 1 year (or perhaps more if needed).

MS reports release went smoothly save the stress of merging in #2359 at the last minute. (It took ~4 hours to debug a snippet of Makefile that was removing a namespace that was no longer there.)

MS, JJ, EBB, TOC, and maybe RV have academic calendar restrictions, and thus (SB suggests) should put their heads together and propose dates.
- SS and MS plan to attend the DHd conference (2023-03-13/17).
- EBB may not be able to travel in early March. She expresses a strong preference for early May.

EBB volunteers — No objections (nor other volunteers) from anyone present, and we know JJ approves as well. Thus EBB is appointed Chair for calendar 2023.

SB, MH, EBB to hold a meeting soon (Action on EBB to schedule a meeting, due 2022-12-08).

SB reports slow progress being made; still hoping to have a full PR well before next release, but quite possible it would be the one after that.

MS reports that the Saxon version problem has been fixed by replacing the hard-coded version numbers with wildcards.
SB reports (and MS details) that the plug-in from Syncro has diverged from the TEI-C plug-in, in particular the CSS files are in a different place.
Multiple copies / multiple locations of CSS due to multiple referencing locations.
MH does not want to continue with the oXygen plugin issues.
We should arrange a special Council meeting inviting someone from Syncro Soft to join us, even for a short while. Note that backwards-compatibility is probably not Syncro Soft's highest priority.

SB: Brown is likely to cease support in months, not years, because Brown lists need to be sponsored by someone working at Brown, and (at the moment) no one in TEI-C inner circles does.
17 TEI-related listservs have been hosted at Brown. Most are dormant. We would want the archives for all of them.
Transitioning TEI-L from Brown to a new venue is the most potentially disruptive for the community.
TEI-L is transitioning to Sympa at Huma-Num. The question is how to manage the transition. Transitioning subscribers will be difficult.
Duke uses Sympa—HC can ask around to see if anyone has experience moving from LISTSERV to Sympa. (There has to be a Perl script!)
SB can provide info on the ~17 lists: List name, number of subscribers, last post, rough size of archive. (Note: Both SB & Elli Mylonas are owners of each TEI list at Brown.)
MS will contact the appropriate people (at Huma-Num via Laurent Romary)
Action on HC, SB, and MS by 2022-12-08.

What do we do about #2049 screw-up in 4.5.0 release? Possibilities include:
- 1) Create a 4.5.1 release with the deprecation date (2022-07-14) bumped to sometime in the future.
- 2a) Create a 4.5.1 release with the deprecation removed (after all, it is after 2022-07-14).
- 2b) Create a 4.6.0 release with the deprecation removed (after all, it is after 2022-07-14).
- 3) Nothing.
Council likes option 3—we’ll deal with it in the next release.
Action on SB to just remove the deprecation in the dev branch by the next Council meeting, 2022-12-08.

November Stylesheets meeting: would it be possible to delay it one week?
- Action on HBS: send out Doodle poll (or equivalent) for scheduling it sometime other than Thu 24 Nov (which is also American Thanksgiving) by 2022-11-15.