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Subject: DITA Technical Committee Meeting Minutes: 25 March 2008
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 +972-8-974-1569 (direct) +972-57-314-1170 (mobile) http://www.tech-tav.com
DITA Technical Committee Meeting Minutes: 25 March 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, 25 March 2008 at 08:00am PT for
60 minutes.
1. Roll call
We have quorum.
2. Approve minutes from previous business meeting:
* date : 18 March 2008
* URL : http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/dita/200803/msg00031.html
Accepted by acclamation.
3. Business:
1. Organization of the DITA Specification
1. ITEM: Draft of General Conformance Specification (resuming from last meeting)
http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/dita/200803/msg00028.html (background--Ogden)
http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/dita/200803/msg00029.html (PDF version--Ogden)
Jeff: Idea is to accept this as input to the editors for use in
writing the 1.2 drafts.
Accepted by acclamation.
2. ITEM: Rethinking the DITA Reference Docs (resuming from last meeting)
http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/dita/200802/msg00014.html (Kimber and following)
Action (Robert and others): mock ups of potential solutions
ACTION: Robert and Eliot to provide mockups of potential solution.
Revisit next week.
2. ITEM: Need Clarification on Implications of Different List Markup Patterns
http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/dita/200802/msg00011.html (Kimber)
Action for Eliot: rollup needed
Action for Robert: write up position for list to provoke reaction/discussion
Action for Eliot was subsumed into the action for Robert.
Gershon offered to work with Robert on the position discussion.
Revisit next week.
3. New ITEM: Should Nested Topicrefs Be Allowed for format="ditamap"?
http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/dita/200803/msg00014.html (initial post--Kimber)
Eliot: The question is what is expected when a topicref to a map
contains one or more child topicrefs.
Jeff: The spec should clarify what processing is expected or at least
say it's undefined.
Gershon suggested clarifying the spec for 1.2 and readdressing the issue
in a future release.
DECISION by acclamation: Update the specs to say that when a topicref to
a map has child topicrefs, the publishing behavior of the child topicrefs
is undefined.
4. Updates on remaining SC deliverables (covered Machine industry last week)
John: We're working with Jeff and Robert to refine the DTDs.
Discussion on DTD packages we'll provide. We want to keep the number of
packages to a minimum. Perhaps minimum, maximum and something in between
with instructions on how to come up with a custom middle-ground.
ACTION: Jeff to post packaging suggestion to list.
Discussion on what to do with ditabase.
Also discussion on best practice documentation on when to use ditabase
and when not to use it, which should be handled by the Adoption SC.
5. Please continue discussion on the list about "Test Environment for SC business"
4. Announcements/Opens
1. JoAnn on proposed DITA Adoption Subcommittee
http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/download.php/27693/Statement%20of%20Purpose%20for%20OASIS%20DITA%20Adoption%20Subcommittee.doc
Idea is to have a group to promote the use of DITA in the community,
including looking at conforming products and services.
TC members who would like to participate on the SC should email JoAnn.
Also, if anyone has comments on the draft charter please email comments
to JoAnn.
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