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Subject: MEETING MINUTES -- 08 Feb 2005 -- DITA TECHNICAL COMMITTEE
MEETING MINUTES -- 08 Feb 2005 -- DITA TECHNICAL COMMITTEE *** Please see Action Items and Decision Summary at the end *** ** Agenda ** ------------ 1. Roll call 2. Review/approve minutes from 01 February - http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/dita/200502/msg00009.html 3. Assessment: readiness for Committee Draft - Core Specification status - DTD/Schema status - Language Reference 4. If in consent to do so, do the first CD vote. 5. If in consent to do so, approve the CD for public review. 6. AOB? ** Minutes ** ------------- 1. Roll call - 12/19 -> QUORUM 2. Review/approve minutes from 01 February - http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/dita/200502/msg00009.html - Minutes approved by acclamation 3. Assessment: readiness for Committee Draft (CD) - Core Specification status - DTD/Schema status - Language Reference - There were several questions / contingent issues -- - Can we vote on these drafts in the form they are currently in? Is this the final form? Are there formatting issues that need to be fixed? - There are some comments in certain places that don't seem appropriate. We will vote on the drafts contingent upon the removal of these comments. - Will there be a .chm version of the files? 4. If in consent to do so, do the first CD vote. - VOTE RESULTS -- We have approval by 13 of 19 -- unanimous. WE HAVE A COMMITTEE DRAFT! However, note the contigencies listed above. 5. If in consent to do so, approve the CD for public review. - We plan to provide the following versions -- - HTML Web - HTML Help - PDF - It was moved and seconded to approve for public review, with the source corrections as requested. - VOTE RESULTS -- We have approval by 13 of 19 -- unanimous, with the source corrections as requested. 6. AOB? - How do we manage incoming comments resulting from the public review? - Someone needs to figure out how the public can submit comments. AR for Don to ask Mary Macrae about all these things. - It would be best if every input we get must receive a response and be tracked. Thus we need a single focal point for receiving comments. - Recommendation -- All comments to be forwarded to the TC Comments list, and also to be CC'd to Michael Priestley. - Let's take a vacation next week. :) - Any questions/issues, use the TC list. ** Summary of Decisions ** -------------------------- - We approved the committee draft (CD). - We approved the CD for public review. - We will take a vacation and not meet on 2/15. ** Action Required ** --------------------- *** NOTE: Action Items and Issues to be Resolved required for the 1.0 spec are marked with ">>>". 022 Don, Michael -- Put together a "self-study" tutorial/demo, as per JoAnn's comments regarding the DITA sessions. Still pending as of 7/20/04. 062 Eric Sirois, 10/05/04 -- provide XSLT validation for specialized schemas once developed (Indi recommends Jarno to work with him) >>> 1/25/05 -- this will be an ongoing project; the 1.0 spec does not depend on this. >>> 070 Erik please put together proposal for Ns for dtds and modules (if necessary) for Michael. >>> 1/25/05 -- This is also in the 1/25/05 agenda. >>> 2/1/05 -- Don added a paragraph to the attribute description for @scale in the language reference. >>> 2/8/05 -- CLOSED. >>> 075 Don, 1/18/05 -- Contact Mary Macrae to get the proper OASIS string to put into public identifiers. >>> 1/25/05 in progress. The 1.0 draft does depend on this! >>> 2/1/05 -- Still pending. >>> 2/8/05 -- CLOSED. >>> 077 Don, 1/25/05 -- Ask Deborah Lapeyre if the DTDs and Schemas will be ready for voting next week. >>> 2/8/05 -- CLOSED. 078 Deborah Lapeyre, 2/1/05 -- Take discussion of DTD comments to the list, and apply the consensus decision to the next round of edited DTDs. >>> 2/8/05 -- CLOSED. >>> 079 Don Day, 2/8/05 -- Ask Mary Macrae about several issues -- - How can the public submit comments on the CD? Can we get a mailing list set up? etc. - What are the constraints for the final format of the CD? >>> 080 All, 2/8/05 -- Remove comments from the CD. >>> 081 All, 2/8/05 -- Will there be a .chm version of the CD files? 082 placeholder for next ** Issues to be Resolved ** --------------------------- *** NOTE: Action Items and Issues to be Resolved required for the 1.0 spec are marked with ">>>". 006 All -- Should DITA specialization mechanism be documented in a separate specification in order to make it easier to use in other XML applications that otherwise have no relationship to topic-based writing? >>> Ongoing. >>> 11/30/04: - add to spec issues list >>> CLOSED 2/8/05 009 "Best Practices" document -- Let's put this on the agenda for future discussion. 010 Relationship between DITA and other topic-based architectures (such as S1000D) -- Need to incorporate this into the "Best Practices" document. >>> 012 All, 2/8/05 -- Decide how to manage incoming comments resulting from the Public Review of the Committee Draft. 013 placeholder for next <END> ___________________________________________________________ Seraphim Larsen ICG Technical Publications Technical Writer Intel Corporation (480) 552-6504 Chandler, AZ The content of this message is my personal opinion only. 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