Co-chair Meeting Minutes: June 23, 2020

MusicXML 4.0

Pull request #318 closing issue #291 has now been merged, and Michael is next planning to work on a pull request addressing issue #254.

MNX-Common

After discussion at the last co-chairs meeting, Adrian has continued to work on the examples for repeat endings and structures, and pull request #186 has been updated taking that feedback and some community feedback into account. The co-chairs discussed using a type value of discontinue (instead of stop) for the final ending in a repeat structure. Having made that change, the co-chairs agreed that this pull request is ready to be merged.

Two further pull requests will follow, one to add repeat endings to the MNX converter project, and one to update the MNX-Common specification in this area.

The co-chairs discussed issue #185. The co-chairs discussed closing some old issues. Issue #185 will remain open but should from now on be more focused on how parts should be grouped; the useful discussion on the other aspects, such as system and staff formatting (which is covered by issue #57), differences between scores and instrumental parts (covered by issue #38), and how to handle collections of related musical documents within a single MNX-Common document (already described in the specification, but which can be reviewed in in the new issue #188). The co-chairs encourage the community members who have created proposals in these areas to move the current state of each of those proposals to the relevant new issue.

The co-chairs see promise in the proposal worked on by the community in issue #185 described as the staffGroup element, and will work on including this in the MNX-Common by Example and the specification as the next priority, once the current work on repeat structures is complete.

The co-chairs also agreed that issue #138 should now be closed.

Next meeting

The next co-chair meeting is scheduled for Tuesday 7 July 2020.