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Subject: Meeting minutes from 27 April 2010 meeting
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DITA Technical Committee Meeting Minutes ======================================== The DITA Technical Committee met on 27 April 2010 at 08:00am PT for 56 minutes. Chaired by Don Day <dond@us.ibm.com> Minutes recorded by Gershon Joseph <gerjosep@cisco.com> Roll call > Quorum was achieved. Approve minutes from previous business meeting: * http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/dita/201004/msg00079.html (13 April 2010 meeting, Joseph) > Minutes accepted by acclamation. Don moved. Kristen seconded. Subcommittee/liaison reports * OASIS DITA Adoption TC > Don asked JoAnn/Gershon to report next week, provided no urgent DITA 1.2 > spec draft issues arise next week. Action Items: * http://www.oasis-open.org/apps/org/workgroup/dita/members/action_items.php > Only one open item, which Gershon will get to after the DITA 1.2 review > closes. BUSINESS 1. ITEM: Check on schedule * 12 April 2010 -- 12 April 2010: Fourth internal review begins. This review will include the OASIS DITA Adoption Committee and the OASIS Technical Advisory Board (TAB). DITA TC members will review only selected topics and sections; members of the Adoption Committee and the TAB are welcome to review everything. (Note: Review *will* start earlier if it is possible to complete builds and set up Wiki pages before 12 April.) * http://wiki.oasis-open.org/dita/TechReview4. > Kris: Reminded people this internal review ends on April 30th. We went through > the reviews to get status. Asked reviewers to update the status table as they > move along. Friday is a hard deadline; there is no room for slack. 2. ITEM: Recap of CMS/DITA 2010 panel presentation on DITA 1.2 > Don reviewed the DITA 1.2 panel that took place at the conference in Santa > Clara. > Kris mentioned that many conference attendees reflected their concern on the > DITA spec getting very complex with each release. A number of TC members > received similar feedback. > Michael: There's been a proposal to come up with a starter set of DITA that > has the bare minimum rather than our current full-house package. Consider this > for 1.3. > Eliot floated the idea of having separate TCs for each vertical instead of > having this single TC try to handle everything. > ACTION: Michael to add to 1.3 feature list an item around opening an SC for a > DITA subset. 3. New ITEM: Recap of OASIS Chairs discussion of Spec Prep discussion * Background by Priestley > OASIS asked for input on things they could do for chairs to ease the spec > development process. > Michael: Led to long thread on toolsets used to write the specs. Idea of XML > model for spec development. Advantages are ability to validate required > sections, etc. instead of the current manual checks. Some chairs feel a tool > with formatting is better. Michael proposed a solution for authoring, > checking and publishing specs using DITA. This spec tool would support any > validating DITA authoring tool, and spec content would be saved in the OASIS > repository. Need to see how much interest there is for this. > Don mentioned concerns that editing in a WYSIWYG environment is preferred, > but they didn't seem to understand that one can edit XML in such an > environment if it's set up. > Michael will ask the chairs if there is interest in putting together a > DITA-based spec authoring and publishing hosted solution and see if there is > enough interest to move Michael's recommendation forward. > ACTION: Michael will offer to do a demo of the IBM hosted authoring > environment for the chairs to see if there is interest in building something > similar for OASIS. > Another item that was raised on the thread was to invite Mary McRae to the > TC meeting from time to time. Don feels that the meeting we have our 1.2 > spec vote may be a good one, or the preceding meeting. > ACTION: Don to invite Mary to the meeting. > ACTION: Kris to forward the initial email plus any other interesting threads > as a single email to the list. Announcements/Opens *** Meeting adjourned after 56 minutes ***
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