Re: [dita] Congratulations and next steps

[Don Day <dond@us.ibm.com>]

I started work on a Roadmap document that starts to organize how this and
subsequent releases might look, and tried to apply Erik's suggestions to
this admittedly outline-level view of things.  I think we can develop more
specific messages or other documents once we agree on the roadmap discourse
and the links provided for it.  I welcome your comments on how this is
shaping up:
http://wiki.oasis-open.org/dita/Roadmap_for_DITA_development#preview

Regards,
--
Don Day
Chair, OASIS DITA Technical Committee
IBM Lead DITA Architect
Email: dond@us.ibm.com
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 Where is the knowledge we have lost in information?"
   --T.S. Eliot


                                                                           
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Hi, Paul:

Maybe we could distill the new DITA 1.1 features to two main themes:

* Book deliverables (bookmap / bookinfo, shortdesc enhancement, indexing
enhancements, graphic scaling)

* Data extensibility (extensible metadata attributes, <data> element,
<unknown> element for foreign vocabularies)


Would that support crisp messages along the lines you suggest below?


Erik Hennum
ehennum@us.ibm.com


PS. With the universal attributes sweeping up after the crowd.


"Paul Prescod" <paul.prescod@blastradius.com> wrote on 02/21/2006 09:46:08
AM:

> I think that the DITA 1.1 focus on books could lead to much broader
> adoption of DITA. I hadn't really thought about the bundle of features
> as a theme but it is a great idea.
>
> I would suggest the following next steps:
>
>  * publicize the "New 1.1" proposal as quickly as possible in case there
> is any community disagreement about it
>
>  * publish each individual proposal or design to get community feedback
>
>  * perhaps have "information sessions" where we bring TC members (and
> perhaps others) up to speed on each of the proposal bundles so that we
> can contribute effectively on each
>
>  * if there are any proposals that seem controversial or difficult to
> complete, consider postponing those
>
>  * set a deadline for design completion of the proposals
>
> Other thoughts?
>
>  Paul Prescod