[tei-council] Amber items for discussion on Monday: stake your claim now!

[Martin Holmes]

I'll volunteer for:

    2798963 |add @role to author | 2009-05-30

if that's OK with everyone else.

Cheers,
Martin

Lou Burnard wrote:
> May I suggest that we spend as much as possible of our next call
> trying to make some progress on some of the 20 or so outstanding Amber
> tickets, listed below in reverse date order. (For new members, an
> Amber ticket typically describes an issue where the Council has not
> yet reached clear consensus as to to what should be done, if anything)
> 
> I'll try to post a brief comments on some of these before the
> weekend, but in the meantime can I ask for volunteers to speak to some
> of the tickets listed below? Please tell the list as soon as you've 
> chosen your ticket though, so that we don't all try to deal with the 
> same one! If each council member chooses just one topic from the lists 
> below, we should be able to make a good deal of headway.
> 
> What you need to do is go to http://bit.ly/56dzWs (which shd resolve
> to our sourceforge feature request tracker), choose a ticket that
> interests you, click on its description, and read the comments. In
> some cases (2877940 is one) you may also need to refer back to
> preceding discussion on the tei-council or tei-l list. Either way, you
> should aim for a clear understanding of what the issues are, even if
> you are not certain what the right course of action should be.
> 
> For reasons now lost in the mists of time, we distinguish "feature
> requests" from "bug reports". In practice, people don't remember the
> difference, but we still have two lists to deal with. Here's the list
> of open "feature requests" in the amber group:
> 
> 2877940 |Revisit use of @target, @match on certainty, precision, etc. | 
> 2009-10-13
> 2862151 |Allow certainty etc. in "empty" elements | 2009-09-19
> 2859355 |<subst> should permit textual data | 2009-09-15
> 2859183 |Make all milestoneLike elements spanning | 2009-09-15
> 2834511 |Add more elements to att.spanning with schematron constraint | 
> 2009-08-09
> 2834505 |@cert on choice and model.choicePart | 2009-08-09
> 2830815 |vesta: convert multiple schemata | 2009-08-01
> 2812634 |@docStatus on <edition> | 2009-06-26
> 2811239 |new element 'object' | 2009-06-24
> 2811234 |add @ref to 'material' | 2009-06-24
> 2798963 |add @role to author | 2009-05-30
> 2794512 |Move <space> to core module | 2009-05-20
> 2783323 |add @from and @to to choice | 2009-04-29
> 2728068 |suggested values for <relatedItem at type | 2009-04-03
> 2531384 |Rationalise application of @target | 2009-01-23
> 2493417 |<idno> coverage | 2009-01-08
> 
> And here's the list of open "bug reports"
> 
> 2900430  |data type of @scribe and @script | 2009-11-19
> 2881416 |meeting as child of <titleStmt> |2009-10-18
> 2714682 |biblScope should be in Imprint or not? |2009-03-26
> 
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Martin Holmes
University of Victoria Humanities Computing and Media Centre
(mholmes at uvic.ca)
Half-Baked Software, Inc.
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