minutes, 18 September 2025 SVG WG telcon

Minutes from today’s telcon are below.


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IRC log of svg on 2025-09-18

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Meeting: SVG Working Group Teleconference
05:32:26 [krit]
agenda+ Organizational discussion
05:33:09 [caribou]
Present: Dirk, Ragvesh Sharma, Carine, Karl Dubost, Nikolas Zimmermann
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present+
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05:35:05 [nzimmermann]
good morning :-)
05:35:14 [krit]
scribe: Karl Dubost
05:35:39 [karlcow]
agenda+ get to know each other
05:35:50 [karlcow]
agenda+ what do we want to achieve
05:36:33 [karlcow]
Caribou: Mike Smith updated the spec a couple of times.
05:36:51 [krit]
scribe: "Karl Dubost"
05:37:00 [karlcow]
Caribou: Francois also updated to the publishing process to GitHub.
05:37:27 [karlcow]
caribou: the owner of the domain name would be happy if W3C could take ownership
05:37:28 [caribou]
scribenick: karlcow
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05:38:04 [karlcow]
(People introducing themselves)
05:38:30 [caribou]
present+ Vinay
05:39:51 [caribou]
present+ Tav
05:42:02 [karlcow]
Dirk: the charter is quite clear this is only a maintenance.
05:43:06 [karlcow]
Dirk: How's the time for the meeting? How frequent should it be?
05:43:24 [karlcow]
caribou: we could discuss this at the end of the call.
05:44:07 [karlcow]
Karlcow: the time and frequency are fine for me.
05:44:17 [karlcow]
Ragvesh: fine too.
05:44:39 [karlcow]
Agenda?
05:45:38 [karlcow]
Ragvesh: I was not expecting to have precise issue to discuss this time. I thought it was just reintroductions.
05:46:14 [karlcow]
Dirk: Hope to receive agenda items on Monday for the next meeting.
05:46:33 [karlcow]
Dirk: Let's hope that you are already setup for GitHub.
05:47:02 [karlcow]
Dirk: Let's start next week with 15 minutes later.
05:47:20 [karlcow]
... and make the meeting 45 minutes later.
05:47:47 [karlcow]
agenda+ format of the spec
05:50:14 [karlcow]
Karlcow: are people interested in converting the spec to bikeshed or respec.
05:50:32 [karlcow]
Dirk: It could be a lot of work.
05:50:56 [karlcow]
... but if you volunteer, I have no issues.
05:51:16 [karlcow]
Tav: @@
05:51:41 [karlcow]
Kirk: There are metadata which would be interesting to keep in the spec.
05:52:07 [karlcow]
caribou: the benefits of using Respec is that it is very close to HTML.
05:52:19 [karlcow]
... and there is a lot of boilerplate coming for free
05:53:17 [karlcow]
... There are references issues to fix and issues to link with CSS.
05:53:29 [karlcow]
... SVG2 refers to CSS 2.1
05:54:07 [karlcow]
... moving to respec would give an opportunity to fix the links to the right places.
05:54:29 [karlcow]
Dirk: bikeshed helps to link to the test references.
05:54:57 [karlcow]
nzimmermann: many of the tests are not yet in WPT.
05:56:12 [karlcow]
... Cameron gives examples on how to convert tests to WPT.
05:56:46 [karlcow]
Dirk:It would be great to have a presentation on how to convert the tests.
05:58:11 [karlcow]
Karlcow: Would people like to meet in Kobe?
05:58:57 [karlcow]
(Some people can participate/some will not be able).
05:59:34 [karlcow]
Tav: One thing I would be concerned if the tests are HTML only, it makes it hard to test for us.
06:00:12 [karlcow]
Nzimmermann: good point.
06:00:48 [karlcow]
Dirk: It's a format which can run both in browsers and outside of browsers. It's an additional constraint.
06:01:30 [karlcow]
Dirk: we could try an hybrid meetin.
06:01:58 [karlcow]
caribou: breakout during the Tech Plenary could be organized as an hybrid meeting.
06:02:44 [karlcow]
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06:03:09 [caribou]
https://www.w3.org/2025/11/TPAC/schedule.html#wednesday

06:03:41 [caribou]
Breakout sessions https://www.w3.org/2025/11/TPAC/breakouts.html

06:04:03 [caribou]
Proposals are GH issues
06:05:22 [krit]
Thanks a lot karlcow for scribing today. I'll send the minutes to the mailing list.
06:05:50 [karlcow]
<3 sorry for anything I would have missed. Feel free to fix it.