Co-chair meeting minutes: July 19, 2024

MNX

In our last meeting we discussed moving the staff number up from the clef object into the positioned clef object, and Adrian has made that change (git commit). Only a single example document (for grand staff instruments) was affected by this change, and Adrian has updated that too.

We asked for feedback on pull request #347 and we spent a while discussing the responses received on the pull request. We as co-chairs are unanimous that we need the support mechanism not only for accidental display, but also no doubt for other things in future (for example, beaming), and we believe that raising the burden on producers of MNX to have implementations of these algorithms will damage the broader utility of the specification, particularly for applications not solely focused on displaying music notation. Nevertheless, we welcome further feedback from the community before we proceed with this change.

We received an automated security advisory from GitHub’s “dependabot” concerning a known vulnerability in Django, which is used by our doc generator system, and Adrian has merged the resulting pull request.

Myke raised the issue that we still have a single object type with a hyphen, octave-shift, which represents an octave line, which means we cannot yet close issue #344. In deciding how to address this, we decided that we would rename the object ottava (to allow us to use the idea of “octave shift” more generically, for example for the amount of transposition suggested by a clef). We also decided that we would change the value for the amount of shift to be an integer representing the number of octaves. Adrian will make these changes soon, so that we can close off this issue.

Next meeting

The next co-chairs’ meeting will be on Thursday 1 August 2024.