[tei-council] open issues and planning

[Sebastian Rahtz]

Syd Bauman wrote:
>   I probably missed something, then. I thought we were quite careful
>   at the MM in Victoria *not* to make a full-fledged commitment to
>   have P5 done by College Park.
Memories obviously vary. I thought we made an absolute
commitment to do this!
>   Taiwan or not, I thought it was deliberate. Besides, Lou has
>   suggested, and I think he's right, that an additional face-to-face
>   meeting over chapter review is probably a good idea. That may (or
>   may not) make it quite difficult to be done with 1.0 by MM2007.
>   
why can't we have another f2f before November?
>   - "frozen" means r/o, and is a drastic step that is taken
>     immediately before publication
>   - none of P5 is currently frozen
>   - much of it is close -- I like the word SR used "gelid"
>   
I agree, none of it is yet definitively r/o. Freezing, not frozen
>   - I would guess some 95% of or Spec files are gelid, with a bunch
>     that are due for significant work, including (off the top of my
>     head) those affected by:
>     + changes to dating attrs
>     + limited-phrase decisions
>   
these are in your ball court right now, correct?
>     + handling regularization of names
>     + handling spans
>   
not sure about these
>     + whatever we end up doing about postscripts
>   
?
>     + new stuff on "placeography"
>   
aAgreed, thats dependent on rapid work in the Baltic
>     + addition of Schematron rules
>   
We don't _need_ to add any of these, do we? The facility
is there, we can use, or not, any time
>     + the div0, div1, div0|div1, or no numbered divs decision
>   
that's in hand, I hope.
>     + potential changes to bibl, biblStruct, biblItem system
>   
oh lord, isn't that dead yet ???

Anyway, even your list sounds eminently
doable between now and the Council f2f.
Just needs some hard graft.

We just work out a timetable week by week
for which issues to resolve in that week,
and stick to it. It's not rocket science....

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