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Subject: Re: [dita-adoption] Summary of new OASIS process


Hi Kristen et al,

A few corrections noted inline. Also, more details can be found in the TC Handbook pages here:
Committee Note Drafts: http://docs.oasis-open.org/TChandbook/Reference/CommitteeNoteDrafts.html
Public Reviews: http://docs.oasis-open.org/TChandbook/Reference/PublicReviews.html
Committee Notes: http://docs.oasis-open.org/TChandbook/Reference/CommitteeNotes.html

I provided JoAnn and Gershon with PDFs of the updated white paper templates along with the specific changes in mid-October; if there are any questions with regard to the templates or anything else related to the process, please feel free to contact me. I'm happy to help.

Best regards,

Mary



On Nov 10, 2010, at 11:24 PM, Kristen Eberlein wrote:

Key links:
 
OASIS Technical Committee Process: http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/process.php
 
 
Here is a summary of how the new OASIS processes will affect our feature articles
 
·         Our feature articles will need to follow the  guidelines outlined in “Section 2.1.8 Work Product Quality”:http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/process.php#specQuality . This means, among other items, that we need to provide editable source, XHTML (or HTML), and PDF.
·         Our feature articles (now called committee notes) must follow the processes outlined in “Section 3 Approval Process.”
http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/process.php#standApprovProcess

Here is my understanding of how the new process will affect our work:
o   We register the work product: http://docs.oasis-open.org/templates/TCAdminRequests.html

Please do not use that address; it is subject to change. Please use the form links directly as displayed here: 

o   We approve the work product as a “Committee note draft.” This requires a full majority vote of the TC.
At the time of approval, the Chair or designate must notify TC Administration by submitting the Committee Note Draft Creation / Upload Request. Since it is anticipated that the DITA Adoption TC will be using DITA as its editable source, the TC will also be responsible for providing HTML and PDF formats. Note that the work product will be QC'd at the time of submission and must conform to the appropriate template.

o   We decide to submit a committee note draft for public review; this also requires a full majority vote of the TC. If approved by the TC, this draft becomes a “Committee Note Public Review Draft”; it must be accompanied by a “recommendation from the TC of external stakeholders who should be notified of the review.”
o   We request a 30-day public review from Mary McRae:  http://docs.oasis-open.org/templates/TCAdminRequests.html. This request form requires the following information, among others:
§  URI for the committee note draft at http://docs.oasis-open.org/
§  Link to the minutes for the Adoption TC meeting at which the TC approved the committee note draft and voted to request a review
o   Mary McRae announces the public review to the OASIS membership list and “optionally on other public mail lists.”
o   Non-TC Members post comments to the TC's public-comment list. [Do we have such as list?]
Yes. All TCs have a comment list (dita-adoption-comment)

We must acknowledge the receipt of each comment and track the comments received; at the end of the review period, we need to post a list of how each comment has been handled to our e-mail list.
o   If we make ANY changes to the committee note draft
any changes made to a Committee Note Draft must be submitted for Public Review, whether or not as the result of the public review.

as a result of the public review, we need to start the whole process over. The review period this time is only 15 days.
o   After a public review that does not generates any comments that result in the changes to the committee note draft, we can approve the work product as a committee note. This requires a special majority vote of the TC. If the 15-day review generated any comments, this vote cannot be held before seven days have passed since the close of the public review. To conduct the special majority vote, we need to notify Mary McRae that the TC is ready to vote and provide her with the location of the editable versions of the files. She sets up and conducts the ballot.


It’s not clear to me whether we’ll need to request that OASIS create and upload the committee note draft for us; there is a form for this at http://docs.oasis-open.org/templates/TCAdminRequests.html
Yes; see above.

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Best regards,
Kris
Kristen James Eberlein l DITA Architect and Technical Specialist l SDL Structured Content Technologies Division l (t) + 1 (919) 682-2290 l keberlein@sdl.com
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