Minutes of the 25th August 2016 Teleconference Austin-780 Page 1 of 1 Submitted by Andrew Josey, The Open Group. 26th August 2016 Attendees: Don Cragun, IEEE PASC OR Geoff Clare, The Open Group Mark Ziegast, SHware Systems Joerg Schilling, FOKUS Fraunhofer Andrew Josey, The Open Group David Clissold, IBM Nick Stoughton, USENIX, ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 22 OR Eric Blake, Red Hat Richard Hansen, Google Apologies Martin Rehak, Oracle * General news We have been working on the html edition which is close to completion. We are discussing with IEEE about publishing the 2016 edition , they have informed us that they no longer tend to roll in technical corrigendum. Andrew has a teleconference planned for August 26th. We noted that we had found one layout issue in the pdf merged draft (V7TC2D4) made available in June 2016 and thus we will plan a rebuild that will impact the line numbering. * 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 28 Jan 2016) Bug 0000249: Add standard support for $'...' in shell Reopened http://austingroupbugs.net/bug_view_page.php?bug_id=249 We will return to bug 249 on a future call. Bug 0000953: Alias expansion is under-specified Was Accepted as Marked http://austingroupbugs.net/view.php?id=953 Richard has an action to propose new wording to discuss in a future telecon. * Current Business Bug 983: awk's rand()/srand() spec not useful http://austingroupbugs.net/view.php?id=983 This was previously Accepted as Marked, with an interpretation pending. Some issues had been raised with the interpretation. A lengthy discussion followed, with a revised interpretation being prepared. This is still in progress and will be discussed at the next call. Next Steps ---------- The next call is on September 1st, 2016 (a Thursday) Calls are anchored on US time. (8am Pacific) This call will be for the regular 90 minutes. http://austingroupbugs.net An IRC channel will be available for the meeting irc://irc.freenode.net/austingroupbugs An etherpad is usually up for the meeting, with a URL using the date format as below: http://posix@posix.rhansen.org:9001/p/201x-mm-dd password=2115756#