Summary of MathML call meeting

No one took detailed notes, but here is the executive summary:

The agenda is at [1]. It links to multiple issues where discussion is
taking place.

The first group of issues were about agreeing on the repo to use and using
labels. We are all (literally) on the same page now [2]. The next group was
about tools, migration of the spec, cleanup, etc. David and Frédéric have
done a great job identifying and resolving these issues. There is more work
to do, but lots has been done.

The main part of the call was going through issues involving deprecation.
This was based on a focus of what belongs in core and what doesn't.
Ultimately, we agreed past MathML deprecated features should not be part of
core, nor should features (whatever they are) that will be deprecated for
MathML 4. Many of the issues listed for potential deprecation were because
they didn't belong in core either because they were redundant or conflicted
with CSS. The group agreed that isn't necessarily a reason to deprecate a
feature. E.g., a feature could still be in the "full" (or whatever we call
it) MathML spec, but polyfilled so it works in core. On the other hand,
this is an opportunity for cleanup of the spec, so the listed issues in [1]
are candidates for deprecation (note: several people felt some features
such as beveled fractions should not be deprecated and should be in core).
People are encouraged to look at the issues and comment.

There was much discussion about what belongs in core and what doesn't. This
wasn't resolved on this call and will a topic for the next meeting and
possible more after that as we get a better understanding of what is
important and what is doable.

There was some discussion of CSS requests. We agreed to hold off adding
features to the CSS tracker until we had reached agreement on their
importance.

We covered a lot of ground, but we have a very long way to go. The next
meeting will be on March 11, 10am Pacific. The US switches to daylight
savings time March 10 and Europe doesn't do so until March 31. So this
means the meeting will be 18:00 CET. For those in Europe that want to
attend, let me know if we should move it to 11am Pacific (i.e, should the
European time should stay the same as opposed to the US time -- you are the
ones who are graciously joining the call outside of normal working hours).

    Neil



[1] https://github.com/mathml-refresh/mathml/issues/8
[2] https://github.com/mathml-refresh/mathml