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Co-chair meeting: December 7, 2021

Community Group Charter update

After the publication of the draft of the revised Community Group Charter, we received some proposed amendments from James Ingram, for which the co-chairs are grateful. Michael made some amendments in response to these proposals. The proposed Group Charter can be read here.

The co-chairs now propose that we begin the 30-day election period for the approval of the revised Group Charter this Thursday 9 December 2021. The election will conclude on at 23:00 UTC on Sunday 9 January 2022. The method for voting will be to register your approval or disapproval on a dedicated page on the Community Group Wiki. If for any reason you are unable to sign in to the Wiki but still wish to vote, you can alternatively register your vote via the public-music-notation-contrib mailing list. Michael will send full instructions for how to vote at the beginning of the election period on Thursday 9 December.

MNX

Adrian has completed the migration of the last details of the old specification to the new specification, together with a list of the details that have intentionally not been migrated to the new specification (in the first section of the old specification document, Status of this document). This closes issues #253 and #223.

Issue #265 is also now closed: a number of elements with similar names in different contexts have now been renamed to avoid problems when validating against the W3C XML Schema. The following elements have been renamed:

  • <directions> (global) is now <directions-global>
  • <directions> (part) is now <directions-part>
  • <directions> (sequence) remains <directions>
  • <measure> (global) is now <measure-global>
  • <measure> (part) remains <measure>

The MNX converter has yet to be updated to conform to these latest changes, but Adrian plans to do that imminently.

Issue #266 has also been addressed, clarifying that <score> elements can use <layout> elements without requiring any <page> elements, to satisfy use cases where you need to describe a layout but no specific page information is required, for example to produce a single system of unspecified width (like Finale’s Scroll View).

We have now reached consensus on the long-standing issue concerning the grouping of parts (issue #185), and thanks to the work of Christina Noel to summarise the consensus view, Adrian will now prepare a pull request to work this into the specification.

In line with the revised Group Charter, the co-chairs have closed the remaining issues related to the proposed MNX-Generic format, since that is not within the scope of the community group’s work. As a corollary, we have also decided to remove the MNX-Common tag from the GitHub issues, since all open issues in the MNX project relate to what is now known simply as MNX.

Next meeting

The next co-chairs’ meeting will be on Tuesday 4 January 2022.

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