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Subject: FW: [dita] Editorial Preface for the DITA Help Technology Guide
Hi
Adoption TC members, FYI
for those of you not on the DITA TC. Su-Laine Su-Laine Yeo JustSystems Canada, Inc. From:
stan@modularwriting.com [mailto:stan@modularwriting.com] Greetings -- Over the weekend, Tony Self (Help SC Chair) and I
brainstormed a bit on how to respond to Su-Laine's concerns about the DITA
Help Technology Guide. The following preface addresses, in our opinion,
Su-Laine's concerns. The document before the DITA TC for approval tomorrow now
consists of the document that you received three weeks ago and this Editorial
Preface. Stan ================================================================ Editorial
Preface *
Endorsement:
OASIS, the DITA Technical Committee, and the DITA TC Help Subcommittee endorse
no open-source or commercial technologies supporting DITA. Please view the
technologies
in this Guide as equally appropriate possible solutions for the particular set
of Help-related
requirements that you face and not as a particular set of endorsed or
recommended technologies or
implementations. *
Technologies reviewed:
The selection of tools and technologies in this first release of the Guide
emerged mostly from a series of demos of DITA-related Help technologies done by
and for members
of the DITA Help Subcommittee. The Subcommittee continues to invite users,
consultants, and tools
vendors to participate in reviewing this current release of the Guide and in
submitting topics for upcoming
releases of the Guide. It is our goal to be inclusive (all submissions are
welcome) and even-handed
(no technologies are 'preferred' over others). If any reader perceives content
that does not reflect
the goals of inclusivity and even-handedness, contact the Subcommittee. *
Update schedule:
We hope to update and republish this Guide quarterly. If you, a colleague, your
team, or your company has developed DITA-related implementations or
technologies that you
want to submit to the DITA Help Subcommittee to include in upcoming releases of
the Guide,
please contact a member of the Subcommittee (see below). *
Editorial reviews:
The DITA Help Subcommittee works with individual authors in the development
and final integration of submitted topics. Final editorial and production
controls rests with the
Subcommittee. *
Technical reviews:
Whenever possible, Subcommittee members request that the implementations
and tools profiled in the Guide be available for them to test informally. These
informal technical reviews
are designed primarily to provide contributing authors with feedback. The
Subcommittee makes
no guarantees that these implementations or tools work as profiled or that the
Subcommittee
would support these implementations or tools. *
Feedback: Please
send feedback to Stan Doherty (stan@modularwriting.com) or Tony
Self (tony.self@hyperwrite.com). March
16, 2009 Stan
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