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Subject: Meeting minutes from 27 April 2010 meeting


Apologies for the delay in getting these out. I had to concentrate my efforts on the 1.2 spec review last week and over the weekend.
 

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DITA Technical Committee Meeting Minutes
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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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