Minutes of the 21 March 2011 meeting

[JoAnn Hackos <joann.hackos@comtech-serv.com>]

 

 

JoAnn T. Hackos, PhD

President

Comtech Services Inc.

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Minutes for DITA Technical Communication Subcommittee meeting
21 March 2011, 11 am to 12 noon ET

Roll call 11:00 - Quorum 

Attending: Kristen James Eberlein, PaulG, Mariana Alupului, JoAnn Hackos, Rob Hanna, Bruce Nevin, Gershon Joseph, 

Regrets 


Next meeting: 18 April 2011, 11:00am to 12:00pm ET

Approved Minutes:
7 March 2011. JoAnn moved, Rob seconded

Brief review of Open Action items 


Business

1. ITEM -- Troubleshooting specialization. Troubleshooting information type.
	Discussion: perhaps the current IBM specialization is too specific. could be looser. BizDocs SC
	also has several ideas of a new design.
	JoAnn can provide an illustration of the HP model
	Gershon will discuss the troubleshooting elements in Cisco's task model specialization.
	Send reference for Hans van der Meij's article on troubleshooting--explains value of labeling the 
	"trouble" information.
	Rob interested in the questions of criticality and frequency.
	RelTable for Troubleshooting links
	Possible proposal for the DITA 1.3 specification

	Kris--any objections to new elements in task. Good examples in spec/supporting article

	Gershon -- TS use cases on April 4
	Action --set up a wiki page for the use cases


2. ITEM: Release Management -- JoAnn provide link to the release management webinar

	Gershon -- add change control wiki
	add use cases on change control

Adjourn 12:00 noon ET.