Re: [chairs] What can Standards Development / TC Administration do to help?

[Mary McRae <mary.mcrae@oasis-open.org>]

+1

Mary



On Apr 22, 2010, at 3:20 PM, JoAnn Hackos wrote:

> As long as it's XML, we can each work in whatever tool we'd like, seems
> to me.
> JoAnn
> 
> JoAnn Hackos PhD
> Co-chair DITA Adoption TC
> Comtech Services, Inc.
> joann.hackos@comtech-serv.com
> Skype joannhackos
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> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Frederick Hirsch [mailto:frederick.hirsch@nokia.com] 
> Sent: Thursday, April 22, 2010 1:08 PM
> To: ext Mary McRae
> Cc: Frederick Hirsch; Bob Freund; Dave Ings; chairs@lists.oasis-open.org
> Subject: Re: [chairs] What can Standards Development / TC Administration
> do to help?
> 
> I see the benefit of automation of publication checking and tool  
> driven production of various output formats.  This also might make  
> useful templates easier to work with.
> 
> What about authoring tools, or would editors be working in ed/vi/emacs  
> (not that all mind doing so)?
> 
> regards, Frederick
> 
> Frederick Hirsch
> Nokia
> 
> 
> 
> On Apr 22, 2010, at 12:57 PM, ext Mary McRae wrote:
> 
>> Agreed. How would the chairs feel about mandating all specs be  
>> created in an OASIS XML format?
>> 
>> m
>> 
>> On Apr 22, 2010, at 12:40 PM, Bob Freund wrote:
>> 
>>> How much of this review might be automated?
>>> might be a lot if we had an xml publication format.
>>> 
>>> On Apr 22, 2010, at 9:24 AM, Dave Ings wrote:
>>> 
>>>> +1
>>>> 
>>>> This would really cut down on the iterative churn that seems to  
>>>> frustrate the people involved in the publication process. Great  
>>>> idea!
>>>> 
>>>> Regards, Dave Ings,
>>>> Emerging Software Standards
>>>> Email: ings@ca.ibm.com
>>>> Yahoo Messenger: dave_ings
>>>> 
>>>> <graycol.gif>Hanssens Bart ---2010/04/22 09:02:30 AM---> Would you  
>>>> like us to review your specifications prior to TC ballots so you  
>>>> don't need to go back a
>>>> 
>>>> From:	Hanssens Bart <Bart.Hanssens@fedict.be>
>>>> To:	Mary McRae <mary.mcrae@oasis-open.org>,
> "chairs@lists.oasis-open.org 
>>>> " <chairs@lists.oasis-open.org>
>>>> Date:	2010/04/22 09:02 AM
>>>> Subject:	RE: [chairs] What can Standards Development / TC  
>>>> Administration do to help?
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>>> Would you like us to review your specifications prior to TC  
>>>> ballots so you don't need to go back and fix stuff afterwards?
>>>> 
>>>> That would be very helpful indeed, especially for new TC's /  
>>>> people submitting specifications for the first time...
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> Best regards
>>>> 
>>>> Bart
>>> 
>> 
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