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Meeting minutes 2021 10 07

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Attendance: Robert Anderson, Alex Jitianu, John Pashley, Roger Sheen, Chris Papdemitrious, Jarno Elovirta, George Bina, Lief Erickson, Mitch Abramson

Item 1: Any updates about prior releases?

Any patches planned or other concerns about 3.6?

Item 2: DITA-OT 3.7 Development status and updates

Project board for next release: https://github.com/orgs/dita-ot/projects/27

Potential release dates: looking towards early to mid December.

Just merged PR that moves PDF2 AH and XEP plugins into their own repositories. They get very little attention, make the core repo more focused on what is actually being supported. Still bundle the plugins by default.

Added common attributes mode to XHTML, just to clean up the code a bit (mode template rather than named).

Updated to Saxon 10.6. Small bug fix but had to update a lot of code to get our dist build and docs building properly. With that updated to Gradle 7.2. Noted that Michael Kay just released a C# version, which is based on Saxon 11, so there may be a Saxon 11 version quite soon that we would be able to go to. Recommend looking at their release notes, Saxon's release notes are quite good and looks like some nice features in 11.

Hacktoberfest - we still have labels that can be used for credit, but have not promoted it much.

Working on moving from Travis-CI to GitHub Actions, with Travis going away for open source.

Item 3: Doc updates and plans

CI process used to build dev copy of docs runs on Travis. Jarno set up new CI based on github actions a while back for pull-request previews, should be able to build on that for the dev docs.

Gradle build issues in repo are resolved, working with Saxon 10. Changes to Prettier XML plugin that caused problems have been reverted. Also have updates that would allow git blame to avoid specific commit hashes to skip purely formatting changes.

Once CI is working again, need to start collecting master list of changes for the release.

Item 4: DITA 2.0

Update: grammar files are final, again (update this week due to feedback). Robert will update the plugins.

Webinar this week

Item 5: Other topics

Discussion for new attendees about how to get more involved; see https://www.dita-ot.org/contributing

Item 6: Backlog discussion

Project boards: Project boards: https://github.com/orgs/dita-ot/projects/

Time to go through pull requests, issues tracker, determine how to handle open issues.

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