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Subject: A motion to clarify close of input for 1.1
There has been some confusion among TC members about what the end of October means for the "pending" documents that have not yet been submitted for TC acceptance. A reading of past minutes seems to confirm that the end of October was meant to be the close of scope for 1.1 issue nominations that we are accepting for review, but not necessarily that written Submissions must be filed by the end of the month. Thanks to Seraphim for this research--here are the motions and decisions regarding schedule: 10/4/05 -- 1. How and when to close 1.1 scope - Paul Prescod suggested using email. - Don Day explained that realistically, we will not get through the entire issues list. He proposed -- as at the last meeting -- that all proposals should be submitted by the end of the month. He then asked if anything significant was on the way. - JoAnn Hackos mentioned that the bookmap proposal is important. She then asked about FO output, but Don Day explained that FO output is an issue for the DITA Open Toolkit, not the DITA standard. - Paul Prescod brought up "meta-issues": clarity, separation of concerns etc. - Don Day requested that issues not yet discussed be nominated at the next meeting, to be accepted by the end of the month. Paul Prescod proposed the motion, ALan Hauser seconded. It was accepted by acclamation. 10/11/05 -- - Write-in: Make sure we capture any items that have not been discussed -- no more new items to be accepted after the end of the month - Action (Yas Ettessam): Go through all the sign-up lists and minutes, and capture all the items that have been approved since June. What is left over that hasn't been fully discussed? - Yas Ettessam volunteered to do that. - Don -- Is anyone working on anything else that still needs to be discussed/approved by the committee that will be ready by the end of the month? - Chris Kravogel -- - #4 xNAL - #5 ANSI warning labels - #8 Allow <tm> to contain images or logoized content - Indi Liepa -- Working on item #19 (more general task type), but stuck because of lack of time. Do hope to finish by end of month. - Eric Sirois -- Item #35 (unknown element). Trying to get all the people together so we can put the final proposal together. - Michael Priestley -- Plan to finish the following by end of month: - 6, 14, 17, 20, 40, 42, 43 Now, I admit the wording is not precise, so I'd like to clear things up. If we mean that the writeups for all remaining "Pending" items are to be Submitted by Oct 31, there will be some very grouchy people at our next TC meeting. But seeing that we cannot possibly get through all submissions for some time anyway, I have no problem suggesting that "the 1.1-scope nominations for Pending issues are closed, but we can only process Submissions as fast as we can get through them, so there is time for Pending issue owners to finish the job." For the sake of clear unanimity on what "end of October/close of scope for 1.1" means, I propose the following. If no one objects, we'll give remaining Pending writers time this weekend to see their families, and we'll formally approve this proposal at the start of our next meeting. A motion to clarify the schedule for close of 1.1 nominations and completion of writeups for inclusion in 1.1: Don Day, DITA TC Chair, proposes that all proposals listed in the categories "Design Approved", "Proposal Approved", "Submitted", and "In Progress" are to be considered active proposals for inclusion in the 1.1 spec, whether or not they have been submitted to the TC yet as a formal writeup. Don Day further proposes that writeups for all proposals in the "In Progress" stage (yet to enter the "Submitted" and subsequent "Proposal Appoved" stages) must be presented to the TC by Monday November 14, 2005 (three meetings from now); otherwise, the proposal will be dropped from consideration for the 1.1 spec. Don Day further proposes that final writeups for all proposals in the "Proposal Approved" stage (yet to undergo final submission to the TC and to enter the "Design Appoved" stage) must be presented to the TC by Monday, December 5, 2005 (six meetings from now); otherwise, the proposal will be dropped from consideration for the 1.1 spec. Your tacit agreement to this proposal today (and presumed approval on Tuesday) will mean that writers will have some time to properly finish their submission work. I don't need to hear from you unless you have an objection, which will mean that Pending writers MUST work through the weekend to finish their Submission inputs by Monday. Regards, -- Don Day Chair, OASIS DITA Technical Committee IBM Lead DITA Architect Email: dond@us.ibm.com 11501 Burnet Rd. MS9033E015, Austin TX 78758 Phone: +1 512-838-8550 T/L: 678-8550 "Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge? Where is the knowledge we have lost in information?" --T.S. Eliot
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