Co-chair meeting: May 25, 2021

MusicXML 4.0

Work has continued apace on moving towards the final community report for MusicXML 4.0. Three issues have been closed:

• #280: Documentation changes for hints for code-generation tools
• #401: Deprecating the DTDs
• #412: A bug in the docgenerator tool was fixed

The only remaining issue in the MusicXML 4.0 milestone is #411, concerning switching the licensing from the CLA to the FSA for the publication of the final community report.

One big milestone in this new and improved documentation for MusicXML: for the first time, every single element in MusicXML now has an example in the documentation.

Michael plans to publish a new draft later today and will send a separate announcement with its location. Community members are encouraged to review this draft and report any outstanding issues as soon as possible. The plan is still to publish the final community report on Tuesday 1 June, so please review the draft at your earliest convenience.

MNX

Adrian has continued to work on the docgenerator tool in support of Michael’s work on the MusicXML 4.0 documentation, though now that the MusicXML 4.0 documentation is almost complete, the expectation is that there will be much less work on tooling at this point.

Adrian has continued to migrate old material from the old Bikeshed-based spec to the new docgenerator spec, including stem directions, colour, and so on, and published a new revision today, which can be read here. All of these migrations are simply transferring existing material to the new specification and making no functional changes.

For the coming period, Adrian will continue to migrate further material from the old specification to the new. He expects to have some specific proposals about some of the existing elements that could either be reworked or omitted, which he will bring to the community shortly.

Next meeting

The next co-chairs’ meeting will be on Tuesday 8 June 2021.