Scoping DITA 1.0 [was: OASIS DITA TC: 07 December 2004 meeting reminder]

["Paul Grosso" <pgrosso@arbortext.com>]

I still prefer the minimalist approach to our 1.0 deliverable. When we

were discussing and voting on our charter, I understood that our

first deliverable--DITA 1.0--was pretty much going to be a "rubber

stamping" of the existing IBM standard and current practice with DITA.

We have a second deliverable with which to get more creative.

 

As much as I agree it would be worthwhile to expand the applicability

of DITA techniques beyond the scope of DITA 1.0, I don't feel that we

should do that in the1.0 timeframe. I have been on too many standards

committees that take so long to get out their first release that they

miss the optimal window of opportunity; I'd like to avoid that with DITA.

 

Before we get out our first deliverable, I would not spend time trying to

explain how to use specialization outside of the DITA tag set.  And I

would also leave to post-1.0 the enhancements to <tm> and <keyword>

below.

 

All that said, if the rest of those in the TC don't share my opinion, I'll bow

to the majority on this. The last thing I want to do is add to the time to our

first deliverable by spending another telcon on this issue.

 

paul

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From: Don Day [mailto:dond@us.ibm.com]
Sent: Tuesday, 07 December, 2004 9:21
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Subject: [dita] OASIS DITA TC: 07 December 2004 meeting reminder

3. Specification status
http://www.oasis-open.org/apps/org/workgroup/dita/download.php/10226/ditaspec.pdf
http://www.oasis-open.org/apps/org/workgroup/dita/download.php/10225/ditaspec.chm
"issues for discussion in specification" (start from "Domains attribute")
http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/dita/200411/msg00022.html

4. List issues (triage as potential post-1.0):
- Bugs reported on current DITA DTDs and Schemas
http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/dita/200411/msg00023.html
- Should <tm> allow images or logoized content?
http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/dita/200411/msg00024.html
- Should <keyword> be allowed to nest?
http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/dita/200411/msg00025.html