[AGENDA] MessageFormat 2025-04-14

[Addison Phillips]

All,

The agenda for the 14 April 2025 MessageFormat WG teleconference has been updated.

You can find it here:

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1BwuP876H79xp1ZHgwB3UN_-2i2PoshaN4ICPk39GrcE/edit

This is a regular teleconference.

Behold the agenda:

Topic: Info Share, Project Planning

Topic: PR Review

Timeboxed review of items ready for merge.

PR	Description	Recommendation
#1068	Design document for percent formatting	Discuss
#1067	Semantic skeletons design	Discuss
#1065	Draft new charter and goals for v49/v50 and beyond	Discuss

Topic: Rechartering and Goals (#1051/1065)

We need to set goals for the working group since we’ve partly or wholly disposed of the ones we had. To that end, Addison has drafted new goals/charter. He presented these to CLDR-TC, asking for feedback. Let’s review:

https://github.com/unicode-org/message-format-wg/issues/1051

https://github.com/unicode-org/message-format-wg/pull/1065 

https://github.com/unicode-org/message-format-wg/blob/aphillips-draft-charter/docs/goals.md 

Topic: MessageFormat.unicode.org Maintenance

Addison met with Luca. Reserving time for a status report and discussion.

Topic: Semantic Skeletons

Reserving time to discuss the design.

https://github.com/unicode-org/message-format-wg/pull/1067 

Topic: Percent Formatting (#956)

Reserving time to discuss whether to go with `:percent` or whether to use `:unit unit=percent` and how to handle percents if unscaled.

Topic: Issue review

https://github.com/unicode-org/message-format-wg/issues

Currently we have 32 open (was 34 last time).

• 22 are tagged for 48

• 3 are tagged “Future”

• 13 are Preview-Feedback

• 2 are tagged Feedback

• 1 is resolve-candidate and proposed for close.

• 2 are Agenda+ and proposed for discussion (see below)

• 0 are ballots

Issue	Description	Recommendation
#1043	Deployment, development, and maintenance of messageformat.unicode.org	Discuss
#1051	Plans for v48	Discuss
#1052	TAG Review	Resolve (thank TAG)

-- 
Addison Phillips
Chair (W3C I18N WG, MessageFormat WG)

Internationalization is not a feature.
It is an architecture.