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Subject: DITA Technical Committee Meeting Minutes: 3 March 2007
Apologies for sending these out late. I thought I sent them out last week, but I now see I didn't. -- Gershon L Joseph Director of Technology and Single Sourcing Tech-Tav Documentation Ltd. Secretary, OASIS DITA Technical Committee Secretary, OASIS DITA Translation Subcommittee Member, OASIS DocBook Technical Committee office: +972-8-974-1569 mobile: +972-57-314-1170 web: http://www.tech-tav.com
DITA Technical Committee Meeting Minutes: 3 March 2007
(Recorded by Gershon Joseph <gershon@tech-tav.com>)
The DITA Technical Committee met on Tuesday, 3 March 2007 at 08:00am PT
for 60 minutes.
1. Roll call
We have quorum.
2. Approve minutes from previous business meeting:
http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/dita/200703/msg00000.html (27 Feb 2007)
Accepted (Don moved, Jen seconded, no objections)
3. Announcements:
1. ITEM: DITA 1.1 Public Review in progress!
http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/dita/200703/msg00009.html
Don thanked Robert and Gershon for their efforts in getting the review out.
2. ITEM: DITA TC IPR Transition Ballot approved!
http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/dita/200703/msg00012.html
3. ITEM DITA TC Call for Disclosure -- due diligence
http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/dita/200703/msg00010.html
4. Business:
1. ITEM: DITA 1.2 Specification Requirements status:
http://wiki.oasis-open.org/dita/DITA_Specification_1%2e2_Requirements
Gershon walked everyone through the layout.
Gershon suggested adding a status column; Michael and Don agree.
Chris suggested adding a names column for the main contact person.
Michael suggested rather adding the name to the email link.
No objections, so Gershon will add the name of each owner of the requirement
in parentheses after the email link.
Don suggested adding each proposal as a sub-page of the wiki.
Michael suggested adding to the proposal a section on where in the spec updates should
be made.
Yas: If we use the document repository, we'll save the versions and be sure we're
always accessing the most recent snapshot.
The TC agreed that we should keep the proposals in the repository, and whoever
uploads a proposal to the OASIS documents repository must update the link
in the wiki 1.2 req page to point to the latest version of the proposal.
Chris: We could use the document's URL on the OASIS site (via the Manage link). This
means the document owner must ensure the filename is not changed. Links from the req
page to the proposal must point to the document's overview page, not to the actual
document.
ACTION: Don to get latest version of the DITA proposal template and
upload it to the repository; Gershon to add a link from the req doc to the proposal template.
ACTION: Gershon to complete constructing the req summary page.
2. ITEM: DITA 1.2 Prioritization Process
Don proposed having someone be the release manager who keeps track of who is doing
what and to ensure they provide their deliverables in a timely manner.
Responsibilities:
* Help manage the ongoing review
* Help manage tracking for the items we've approved for 1.2 to ensure
nothing gets left off
* Manage people so we understand who's working on something and to ensure
it's completed on time
Jen volunteered helping with this.
Alan Houser volunteered.
Michael suggested Jen and Alan discuss off-line how they can provide this role.
3. ITEM: SC updates:
DITA Machine Industry Subcommittee
Chris presented the work of the SC. 9 members. Currently working on 4 proposals.
* MI01 Hazard Statement Domain,
* Status: SCDraft released
* Proposal: http://www.oasis-open.org/apps/org/workgroup/dita-machine-industry/document.php?document_id=22148
* DTD: http://www.oasis-open.org/apps/org/workgroup/dita-machine-industry/document.php?document_id=22515
MI01 is a domain specialization adding the statements required by ANSI. MInor change
to note element @type to add additinal required values.
* MI02 Note in Step, Proposal by Gerald Goeth about adding note as first element in step.
* Status: proposal in preparation, SCDraft release expected by April 2007
Chris: This is a modification of <step> and <substep> to add the note
element to insert hazard statements before the step's command.
We expect a draft of this proposal in April/May.
* MI03 MItask, Task type tailored to the needs in the machine industry.
* Status: draft in discussion within the SC, SCDraft release expected for Summer 2007
http://www.oasis-open.org/apps/org/workgroup/dita-machine-industry/document.php?document_id=21926
Chris: This is a new maintenance task that is better alignd with the machince industry.
This is the largest amount of work we're doing. We also want to align it with the S1000D task.
This proposal should be ready by summer.
* MI04 Base topic without domains.
* Status: proposal in discussion within the SC, SCDraft release expected by April 2007
http://www.oasis-open.org/apps/org/workgroup/dita-machine-industry/document.php?document_id=22747
Chris: this proposal is to remove the software domains and other elements not expcted
in the MI. The idea is to have a base topic without domains and allow users to add domains
easily via specialization. SC is still considering options for short-term workarounds and suggestions
for future DITA releases.
Paul raised a concern that we need to ensure we don't grow DITA to become too-compicated
for users to use. We need to be careful how we control which features we allow into DITA 1.2.
Discussion about various ways we can grow DITA without increasing the complexity
for individual users...
5. Announcements/Opens
-- Meeting adjourned at 09:00 --
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