Face‐to‐Face Sevilla Spain

September 2023

This face-to-face meeting of the MessageFormat working group was held in the same location as W3C TPAC between 9 September and 13 September 2023.

Participants:

• Addison Phillips - Unicode (APP) - chair
• Eemeli Aro - Mozilla (EAO)
• Mihai Niță - Google (MIH)
• Staś Małolepszy - Google (STA)

We has Logo

As a weird side effect of this meeting, we proposed the following as a logo for MF2:

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Checklist

• spannable and standalone non-placeholders
  • proposed syntax with three sigils +/-/# (in progress)
• non mutable shared namespace using input and local keywords
• start in text mode for messages with no declarations or selector (match)
  • need to write set of core example messages
• format to parts
  • design for shape of formatted parts for embedded (in progress)
• expression attributes use cases
  • design
• logo
• Nmtoken (deferred pending next item)
• Overriding functions, extending functions, potentially namespacing -[ ] design document (in progress)
• have a stability policy
  • actual stability policy (in progress)
• lazy/eager evaluation - we will not prescribe it and will attempt to avoid forcing eager - annotations are available post declaration
• TAG review is a goal for ~November
• Received valuable external input and actually listened to it