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Subject: RE: [dita] Errata information added to home page
Thanks for those suggestions, Mary. I have some practical questions coming
out of this discussion. It is still not clear to me where such an Errata
page itself would be posted. Would it also be at docs.oasis-open.org/dita/?
Is there a suggested template to follow for its look and feel? Would I need
to ask you to replace the document at that location as we provide new CD
file updates?
Regards,
--
Don Day
Chair, OASIS DITA Technical Committee
IBM Lead DITA Architect
Email: dond@us.ibm.com
11501 Burnet Rd. MS9033E015, Austin TX 78758
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"Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge?
Where is the knowledge we have lost in information?"
--T.S. Eliot
"Mary McRae"
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RE: [dita] Errata information added
09/04/2007 04:07 to home page
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<mary.mcrae@oasis
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Hi Paul,
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Grosso, Paul [mailto:pgrosso@ptc.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, September 04, 2007 3:50 PM
> To: dita@lists.oasis-open.org
> Subject: RE: [dita] Errata information added to home page
>
[Mary: ] [stripped text]
>
> If I understand, we could produce an "Errata" document (explaining
> that these are "resolved issues" but not yet official errata) and
> get that put at some reasonable URL on the OASIS site. Then we
> could augment the content of that document (without changing its
> URL) as we find and resolve more issues. Is that correct?
[Mary: ] Yes. We could use something like
docs.oasis-open.org/dita/v1.1/errata/ and then have version-specific
filenames (dita-v1.1-errata-cd01) with a current version name of
dita-v1.1-errata or similar.
Who
> would have permission to augment that document?
[Mary: ] The TC would maintain the document like any other. At each point
a
new set of changes is approved the status would go from CD 01 to CD 02
(with
interim CD01 R01, R02, etc. until approval). Each time a new CD is created
send it to me and I'll upload (at least until the OASIS Library is at a
point where members can self-serve).
>
> Something like that would seem to me to be most beneficial to
> our user and implementor community and most manageable by the TC.
>
[Mary: ] +1
> paul
>
> >
> > I'm ready and willing to help - I just need to know exactly
> > how the TC
> > wants to proceed.
> >
> > Regards,
> >
> > Mary
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Grosso, Paul [mailto:pgrosso@ptc.com]
> > Sent: Tuesday, September 04, 2007 1:42 PM
> > To: dita@lists.oasis-open.org
> > Subject: RE: [dita] Errata information added to home page
> >
> >
> >
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: Robert D Anderson [mailto:robander@us.ibm.com]
> > > Sent: Tuesday, 2007 September 04 12:19
> > > To: dita@lists.oasis-open.org
> > > Subject: RE: [dita] Errata information added to home page
> > >
> > > "Grosso, Paul" <pgrosso@ptc.com> wrote on 09/04/2007 12:11:57 PM:
> > > > However, it would be best to have a separate "Errata for DITA
> 1.1"
> > > > page that could be linked to from this location on our
> > main TC page.
> > >
> > > I agree - I asked Don about setting up another page at the
> > > TC, but it looks
> > > like the only way to add pages to the main Committee page is
> > > by uploading a
> > > document or by sending an email. In that case it won't really be a
> > > permanent Errata page. One alternative was to point to a page
> > > on our Wiki,
> > > but (to me) that seemed rather too unofficial. If somebody
> > > has a suggestion
> > > of how to get a more official looking errata page at the TC,
> > > please speak
> > > up... alternatively, if others think a wiki page is
> > > appropriate, we could just do that.
> >
> > <rant>The OASIS Kavi system has many disadvantages, and some of
> > us have been complaining about them for years. Unfortunately,
> > either we are in the minority or we have been ignored. The
> > problems, such as this, remain. We still don't really have
> > a web site, just a web-dispensed data base. I hate it.</rant>
> >
> > Maybe Mary can suggest a way we can have a real Errata page
> > to which we can point and which we can update as necessary.
> >
> > >
> > > > By the way, are the links into our mailing list and document
> > > > archive member-only, or do they work for others?
> > >
> > > The links from the TC page are for anybody. The internal
> > links within
> > > Eric's email are member only, because that's what the
> > upload-document
> > > function generates.
> >
> > Which is a problem, because that means a non-member doesn't
> > have access to the corrected schemas. If we are going to
> > "publish" an erratum with corrected schemas, it seems that
> > non-members should be able to access those schemas.
> >
> > Given the ongoing inadequacies in the OASIS web site setup,
> > perhaps this idea of an Errata page is too much trouble.
> > It seemed like such a simple, obvious idea--like the W3C
> > uses--but if it's going to be so difficult to do right,
> > I'm ready to give up on it.
> >
> > paul
> >
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