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Subject: DITA Technical Committee Meeting Minutes: 26 February 2008
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DITA Technical Committee Meeting Minutes: 26 February 2008
Chaired by Don Day <dond@us.ibm.com>
Minutes recorded by Gershon Joseph <gershon@tech-tav.com>
The DITA Technical Committee met on Tuesday, 26 February 2008 at 08:00am PT for
60 minutes.
1. Roll call
We have quorum.
2. Approve minutes from previous business meeting:
* date : 19 February 2008
* URL : http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/download.php/27321/DITA_TC.2.19.2008.txt
Accepted by acclamation.
3. Business:
1. Translation SC documents for vote (discuss status of pending updates first):
1. ITEM: Discussion of "Best Practice for Using the DITA Conref Attribute for Translation"
url : http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/dita/200710/msg00052.html
lead : Hackos
Don: PDF was to be uploaded yesterday. I believe JoAnn made the
update. We need confirmation from JoAnn the final update was made.
ACTION: JoAnn to make corrections and provide PDF for vote next week.
2. ITEM: Discussion of "Indexing Best Practice White Paper"
url : http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/download.php/27201/IndexingBestPracticesWhitePaper.doc
lead : Hackos
notes : http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/dita/200802/msg00042.html
(discuss Kimber paragraph update)
ACTION: JoAnn to make corrections (as requested by Eliot) and
provide PDF for vote next week.
2. ITEM: Organization of the DITA Specification
1. Conformance and Feature Optionality/Flexibility
* http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/dita/200802/msg00013.html (Ogden and following)
Jeff: We're still holding on Eliot's suggestions. So we just need to
apply Eliot's approach throughout the spec.
Eliot walked the TC members through his note (bottom part of
msg00013.html).
Some discussion around whether applications that don't support
specialization should be considered conforming applications or not,
or whether we should grade levels of conformance.
MP: Even if we don't call them conforming, we need a way to refer
to them in an unambiguous way.
JO: Dealing with this in the abstract is very hard. We need someone
to categorize their applications so we can get a list.
JO: This needs to be a chapter in the architectural spec that talks
about conformance and defines these terms. Then throughout the
entire spec we need to apply these terms.
JO: This will result in a feature matrix where vendors can check
their compliance per feature. So if a vendor supports everything
they are fully compliant and if not then what is their level of
compliance?
Discussion of how to reach a happy medium between a pass/fail
approach and a graded set of compliance levels.
JO suggested the lang spec has a paragraph early on in the spec that
states the default unless otherwise stated, so that the spec does
not need to state the required compliance level of each item in the
spec.
Don asked to continue discussion on the list.
ACTION: Eliot to roll up this discussion on the editorial page on
the wiki.
ACTION: Eliot to mark his email up as a starter chapter for the
compliance chapter.
2. Rethinking the DITA Reference Docs
* http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/dita/200802/msg00014.html (Kimber and following)
Move to next week's agenda.
3. ITEM: Need Clarification on Implications of Different List Markup Patterns
* http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/dita/200802/msg00011.html (Kimber--see many follow-ups)
* note public socialization of last weeks suggestions on dita-users
Move to next week's agenda.
4. ITEM: Better name for mitask domain (retained for ongoing discussion)
* http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/dita/200802/msg00036.html (Kravogel)
Move to next week's agenda.
5. Please continue discussion on the list about "Test Environment for SC business"
4. Announcements/Opens
1. Introduction to new OAXAL Technical Committee proposal
* http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/dita/200802/msg00040.html (Hackos)
2. US/European time change discrepancy
* http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/dita/200802/msg00043.html (Day)
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