Minutes of the 13th August 2020 Teleconference Austin-1053 Page 1 of 1 Submitted by Andrew Josey, The Open Group. 15th August 2020 Attendees: Nick Stoughton, USENIX, ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 22 OR Don Cragun, IEEE PASC OR Eric Ackermann, HPI, University of Potsdam Mark Ziegast, SHware Systems Dev. Eric Blake, Red Hat, The Open Group OR Joerg Schilling, FOKUS Fraunhofer Geoff Clare, The Open Group Andrew Josey, The Open Group Richard Hansen Tom Thompson, IEEE * General news We discussed an issue Nick had raised about ISO C and use of consts (changing char * to const char *). There is a document being prepared as a response to the ISO C committee. N2526 document http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg14/www/docs/n2526.htm Draft response: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1lgITI8PhAQk6ox6OjsrJK65WjykH47Kua74CusjswFE/edit?usp=sharing We noted the terminology usage discussion is still running on the list. A reminder that the Draft 1 review is now underway and runs until August 25 2020. The draft can be obtained from the login page of the Austin Group at: https://www.opengroup.org/austin/login.html . * Outstanding actions (Please note that this section has been flushed to shorten the minutes - to locate the previous set of outstanding actions, look to the minutes from 13th June 2019 and earlier) Bug 1254: "asynchronous list" description uses "command" instead of "AND-OR list" OPEN https://austingroupbugs.net/view.php?id=1254 Action: Joerg to investigate how his shell behaves. Bug 700 - Nick to raise this issue with the C committee Bug 713 - Nick to raise with the C committee. Bug 739 - Nick to raise with the C committee. Bug 1216 - Eric to ask if The Open Group is willing to sponsor this interface, referencing bug note 4478. * Current Business Gettext draft. We continued this discussion and will continue on the next call. The gettext draft in the etherpad is at https://posix.rhansen.org/p/gettext_draft https://posix.rhansen.org/p/gettext_split Next Steps ---------- There are no meetings on Mon 2020-08-17, Mon 2020-08-31, Mon 2020-09-07 The next calls are on: August 20th 2020 (Thursday) This call will be for 90 minutes. Aug 24th 2020 (Monday) This call will be for 60 minutes. Apologies in advance: None Calls are anchored on US time. (8am Pacific) Please check the calendar invites for dial in details. Bugs are at: https://austingroupbugs.net An etherpad is usually up for the meeting, with a URL using the date format as below: https://posix.rhansen.org/p/20xx-mm-dd username={first part of hostname} password=2115756#