Co-chair meeting: April 27, 2021

MusicXML 4.0

Michael has been making excellent progress on the MusicXML 4.0 documentation (#353), working in concert with Adrian and his colleague Edward to address issues of both functionality and aesthetic appearance. Michael is hoping to release a draft of the MusicXML 4.0 documentation for review by May 1, 2021. This draft will be missing a few examples for new features added in MusicXML 3.1 and MusicXML 4.0.

Because there needs to be some time to review the documentation and finish off some small details, Michael proposes that the planned release date for MusicXML 4.0 be pushed back by one month to June 1, 2021.

One remaining issue that Michael needs some assistance with concerns documenting some tips and tricks for using code generation tools (#280). If any community members have any tips and tricks they would be happy to share, please add some details to this issue as soon as possible.

Michael furthermore proposes that the DTDs should be officially deprecated as of MusicXML 4.0 in favour of the XSDs for future versions. He will create an issue for community discussion in due course.

MNX

Adrian has continued to work on the docgenerator tool to support the MusicXML 4.0 documentation. He plans to add a search feature to the docgenerator tool in due course, though all of the pages will also be very easily indexed by search engines such as Google so it should be easy to find individual pages within the published documentation from search engines, too.

The to-do list for the docgenerator tool is dwindling as the MusicXML 4.0 documentation nears completion, so the focus will soon return to completing the migration of the existing MNX spec from the old Bikeshed version to the new docgenerator version.

Next meeting

The next co-chairs’ meeting will be on Tuesday 11 May.