EPUB 3 Working Group Telecon — Minutes

Date: 2022-05-20

Attendees

Present: Dave Cramer, Avneesh Singh, Masakazu Kitahara, Toshiaki Koike, Zheng Xu (徐征), Brady Duga, Ben Schroeter, Aimee Ubbink, Charles LaPierre

Regrets: Ivan Herman, Matt Garrish

Guests:

Chair: Dave Cramer

Scribe(s): Ben Schroeter

1. Testing.

Dave Cramer: big topic of the day is testing. Now that we are in CR we must show that our spec is implementable?.
… Internationalization had to re-review and re-approve, had to iterate with security and privacy, but all got resolved.

Dave Cramer: See Testing table.

Dan Lazin: https://tinyurl.com/epub-tests.

Dan Lazin: These links are long and short URLs for the tests.
… We need people to write tests.
… 63 missing tests.
… some are untestable.
… descriptions are in column D.
… put your name in column E.

Dan Lazin: See test descriptions.

Dan Lazin: just need to whittle down the number and get the easy tests out of the way.

Dan Lazin: See how to contribute to tests.

Dan Lazin: this link is instructions for how to write a test.
… we have a Slack channel or you can email me and I’ll walk you through the process.
… complete the metadata too so an RS evaluator can understand the test.
… and link the spec to the test.
… make sure the EPUB validates.
… when done, fork the repo for the spec tested. unique anchors are already populated.

Zheng Xu (徐征): There are two specs, EPUB and RS - do we need both or just RS? Do we need to test all Reading Systems?.

Dan Lazin: just create the test, don’t worry about testing in the EPUB.
… if a test fails EPUBcheck (intentionally), there is metadata for that. Or maybe we still need to add that..

Brady Duga: one thing that worries me about writing test is that we need to be aware of copyright.
… if you use fonts media, text, we need to make sure our licenses match W3C’s licenses.

Dan Lazin: current core media tests have stuff you can repurpose.
… didn’t check in font license to test, so may need to reconsider.
… we can swap out for licensed fonts later.

Brady Duga: consider a AHEM for fonts.

Dave Cramer: See Ahem font for testing.

Brady Duga: these instructions are great, thanks Dan.

Dan Lazin: take a quick look at existing tests before you make one.

Dave Cramer: Zheng, you had additional agenda items?.

Zheng Xu (徐征): once I send pull request, do I close my issue?.

Dan Lazin: yes.
… when preparing tests, please use as opportunity to improve the spec if you find something that is not clear.

2. Publishing CG.

Zheng Xu (徐征): pcg meeting second week of each month.
… we could recruit testers.

Tzviya Siegman: if we’re trying to get the CG to help the WG, it might be easier to bring the WG to the CG.

Dave Cramer: See Deferred issues in EPUB 3.3.

Avneesh Singh: WG should prepare a list of issues that were deferred from EPUB 3.3 like HTML vs XHTML. That would be a good topic for discussion with community group.

Tzviya Siegman: we try to present as problems we want to solve as opposed to solutions.

Brady Duga: Use cases for html vs xhtml: Use of the shelf tools for content creation, use popular scripting libraries, better align with other standards.

Zheng Xu (徐征): would like to share use cases from community group.

Tzviya Siegman: https://github.com/w3c/publishingcg/issues/27 i.

Zheng Xu (徐征): perhaps WG would want to standardize these use cases to be RS agnostic.

Avneesh Singh: better to discuss Media Overlays advancements on sync media community group.

Dave Cramer: https://github.com/w3c/publishingcg/issues/33/.

Dave Cramer: https://github.com/w3c/publishingcg/issues/34/.

Dave Cramer: having a separate navigation document is a foundational pillar of EPUB, so hesitant to move away from that unless we can be sure of benefits.

3. AOB.

Brady Duga: cheap rooms for TPAC are almost gone. Is there a block of rooms for W3C?.

Dan Lazin: will ask Ivan.

Tzviya Siegman: I’l try to look into it.