Co-chair meeting: July 20, 2021
Community Group virtual meeting at TPAC 2021
The co-chairs are beginning the process of organising a virtual meeting, which we propose will be part of the Technical Plenary/Advisory Committee (TPAC) 2021 meeting, which will be running as a virtual conference between 18 October and 29 October. During the second week of the conference, Working Groups and Community Groups can schedule meetings, and the co-chairs propose that our next CG meeting should take place under the umbrealla of the conference’s group meetings. We hope that this will promote awareness of the CG within and around the W3C. It will also allow members of the Music Notation Community Group to attend meetings for other CGs and WGs if they wish.
At the moment, we favour 1400 UTC on Thursday 28 October 2021, with 1400 UTC on Wednesday 27 October 2021 as our second choice. Please save the date in your diaries, and we will provide further information in due course after we have heard from the organisers of TPAC.
MNX
Adrian has changed the main page to point to the new documentation generated by the docgenerator tool and has also folded the introduction to MNX into the documentation. The co-chairs now consider the previous version of the specification effectively retired; there are a few small sections (for example, the pseudo-code for parsing the micro-syntaxes for MNX types) that are not currently accommodated in the new documentation, but we now recommend that anybody who wants to learn about MNX should use the new documentation and can ignore the existing specification.
Now that the old specification is effectively retired, focus can return to working on expanding the specification. Adrian is going to return to the issues that are currently under Active Review. Some of the current set are almost complete, so the first step will be to close some of them. The next major area that the co-chairs propose to tackle concerns the handling of issues like part formatting, and the differences between different presentations of the same material (issues #57 and #34).
Next meeting
The next co-chair meeting will be on Tuesday 3 August 2021.
